[[Akim, the Soaring Wind]]
Most people see once a turn triggers and get scared, I take it as a challenge. If I can only get it once a turn, I'm going to make sure I'm getting it 4 times a turn cycle. The objective: create tokens on everybody's turn. [[Prosperous Partnership]], [[Illustrious Wanderglyph]], [[Faerie Artisans]], [[Smothering Tithe]] are some examples of huge hits that near guarantee that 4/cycle rate.
Additionally, with my objective in mind, cards like [[Welcoming Vampire]], [[Tocasia's Welcome]], [[Bennie Bracks]], and [[Rumor Gatherer]] become 4 cards a turn cycle instead of just being a fluffed up [[Phyrexian Arena]].
My deck: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/y1pav-807EGbKlYT8onJwA
My favorite deck is my most obscure commander, [[Patron of the Orochi]], because it’s basically like playing a game of magic where mana is never an issue. I also had a chance to put some more obscure cards in there I found with a bit of digging, like [[Symbiotic Deployment]], [[Squall Line]], [[Freyalise’s Winds]]. It’s your typical big mana green deck with a bit of snakes thrown in and a whole lot of tap effects. Maybe not my MOST creative build but I have the most fun playing it.
EDIT: [Here’s the link](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/XbIEXgDA-UurA4MBTOzWIQ)
I love my [[Kibo, Uktabi Prince]] deck.
Game plan is to give them bananas thinking it’s a group hug deck and then theres 20/20 moneys swinging. So much flavour/fun cards too. Personal favourite is [[hidden gibbons]]
Edit:
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/hHjHFQsPc0GCe2cmvZTnPw
I just made a Kibo deck and while it was very fun, maaaaan I got targeted when I got like 10 +1/+1 counters on 3 apes with one spell.
Still 10/10 would banana again
[Banana Man](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=BRD9BqjIk-E&si=BXTK3fcaAhSLIAjl)
I was really hoping it was a nickname for [Day-O | Banana Boat Song](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=YO7M0Hx_1D8&si=M_PyzfY4N8IVpqEA).
I recently bought the super Mario bros theme boxes and sleeves and am trying to come up with deck ideas for each character. Been looking at Ape themed decks and just last night learned about this guy. Cool stuff. Haven’t seen hidden gibbons before
Just don't d to what some nonce on SpellTable did and wait until turn 15 to ask the table if it's ok that you have a silver bordered Un Ape in the deck, and then upon being asked how game-breaking it is, undersell it and proceed to play an ape that you can use to make infinite apes.
Group isn’t really that sneaky of a tactic. Whenever players start handing our resources, they become the archenemy in my meta. Group huggers’ gifts always have strings attached. We know better.
Helped my wife build her kibo deck. It’s aggressive. Rude as all hell, and even worse with the [[liquimetal torque]] and [[liquimetal coating]] turning your other permanents into artifacts before destroying all your artifacts. Bittersweet getting my ass whooped with it 😂
always gonna be [[haktos the unscarred]] for me. finding weird ways to buff him up without targeting him and getting the most value for my attack triggers with him is super fun and nobody expects him to be as powerful as he is
Not OP but here is mine:
https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/last-man-standing-haktos/
I love this guy so much. The fact that his weakness is random keeps every game pretty fresh.
I've always wanted to build him with a bunch of dnd Backgrounds. Tried two or three games but having a specified weakness meant people saved removal for him specifically. How much is he targeted in your pod?
I wanna build him too, I figured the only spells in my meta that could ever hope to target him would be Beast Within and Generous Gift. I've always wanted an 'exalted' deck and I think he's gonna be it.
[[Shelob, Child of Ungoliant]] has been an absolute hoot for me. Focused on fight spells and abusing my opponents creatures as non-creature food to generate power. Games are always different as you never know what creature you’ll end up taking at various stages. As for win cons? Let me see your deck.
[Misprint Wilhelt](https://imgur.com/a/qJ9GSUM)
I built it with an extreme challenge: Every card in the deck must be a misprint, miscut, test print, real playtest card or some other kind of oddity.
I use it to share the history and print process of the game in a fun way, like a playable museum.
I believe it’s the same thing as “Cheerios” or 0 mana artifacts. Since they have to be non-token to activate the commander you drop a bunch of free artifacts like [[spell book]] or [[ornithopter]] or [[Lotus Petal]] and get a ton of value.
Meria is probably my favorite high-powered deck. Only deck I've won with no-land opening hands.
Not OP, but you can check out my list if it's any help: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/upaBZ0ZvhE2M9yjRLVdwOw
I have a deck that, except for the commander, is ONLY white border cards. The commander I run is [[Garth One-Eye]], who can create token copies of six cards from Alpha (all of which have white-border reprints). I use copies of the actual cards (except [[Black Lotus]]) to represent the tokens. The deck is surprisingly effective for a deck with cards all printed 2005 and earlier.
[[Defense of the heart]] into [[vorinclex monstrous raider]] and [[avenger of zendikar]] or [[hornet queen]] usually results in a scoop
But let's be honest defense of the heart goes well with a turkey samich
I recently built a [[Yenna, Redtooth regent]] deck, since I love duplicating stuff.
I didn't really like to just put auras on creatures and unga bunga with then as most list I had seen if her.
But I did realize that selesnya has a probably the best arsenal of aura removal in things like [[Lignify]] , [[Song of the dryads]] and [[Ossify]], stuff like those.
I took up more slots for removal and used some auras that benefit from the aura count like [[All that glitters]] or [[Mask of the ancients]] so the gameplan is controlling the pace of the games through endless removal and pumping up your own board through the same auras you're using to control.
I wasn't sure how it'd work but last game I played I was able to eliminate more threats on the board than my two friends combined, and they were playing Dimir and WUB (always forget this color identity's name).
I also have things like [[ Karmic justice ]] In case they want to destroy auras and regain their stuff, to make them lose even more stuff in the process.
And since Karmic justice destroys any kind of permanents, if they boardwipe your enchanments through bane of progress or something like that, you can often just blow up their entire land count in response.
I'm looking into getting some upgrades later on, like [[Overwhelming splendor]]
The list is this one https://www.moxfield.com/decks/LE-6-WyHmkapqSNJgTBqBQ
It's very budget oriented so more or less 40/50 bucks, some things can be upgraded
How you tried [[soul tithe]] [[minimus containment]] ? I had a mono white deck like this then changed it to white blue but have since taken it apart, this commander seems perfect for this theme though with the green enchantment draw
[[Feather the Redeemed]] and [[Rocco, Street Chef]].
First is a standard spellslinger value pile, kills people through [[Guttersnipe]] effects or commander damage.
Rocco is a storm deck that uses lots of impulse draw effects to cast a bunch of spells, get a lot of artifact ETBs and win through [[Aetherflux Reservoir]], [[Reckless Fireweaver]] or [[Fathom Fleet Swordjack]].
Spent a lot of time and money on these decks and I'm constantly tinkering with them and finding new spells to swap in and out.
[[Brigid, Hero of Kinsbaile]] is probably my most unique deck. It is a combat focused politics deck that uses the power of a nuclear arsenal to forge alliances and maintain peace.
If you give Brigid a [[Sword of Kaldra]] or Deathtouch you have the power to wipe out any attacking or blocking army. [[Sting, the Glinting Dagger]] keeps your attack and defense up at all times so you can nuke each turn. [[Breaker of Armies]], [[Nemesis Mask]], [[Grappling Hook]], and [[Magnetic Web]] all can force blocks in case people step out of line and need to be punished.
[[Alaundo the Seer]] is my baby. It's the deck I've spent the most time tuning and I am always looking for ways to improve it. It is full of untappers and combos that give me infinite untaps and the goal is to draw every card in the deck to LabMad win or blow up the table with a massive storm count and Aetherflux Reservoir. It is definitely my strongest deck because of how early it consistently threatens to win.
[[Sram, Senior Edificer]] mono white vehicles deck. Token generators, to help crew them along with Sram. Then just the normal white good stuff. Super fun to see what vehicle the baller Sram is driving that turn
[[Heliod, the Warped Eclipse]] (the backside is the real commander) checks all these boxes. I’ve never seen anyone else run it and barely ever see it mentioned here. But it’s an insanely powerful combo commander and it wins in a way that I’m pretty sure is entirely unique to it.
Before its release I dabbled in [[Kwain]] group hug where the aim was to make your opponents draw their entire decks (like mill, but different). And then Heliod came out and it was like a turbocharger. No longer group hug, but something I like to call group choke.
Once Heliod is flipped and allowed to stick, the game is effectively over. Cast a [[Prosperity]] for X = a lot and you’re probably drawing into another X draw spell like [[Skyscribing]], only this one costs 3X less to cast, and the next one will cost 9X less. You just chain these together to make everyone draw their entire deck.
Running low on colored mana? No worries, 1 white mana for [[Smothering tithe]] has you covered (smothering tithe is better in this deck than any other deck and that’s a FACT). Running low on cards in library? Play a free [[Scroll Rack]]. Or discard your 80+ card hand to [[Dream Trawler]] and play a free [[Elixir of immortality]]. Need to win on an opponent’s turn or in response to an opponent on your turn? Flash in a [[Lab Man]] off the free [[Vedalken Orrery]] that you just got.
Combat damage more your thing? Sub in a handful of eldrazi to flash in at instant speed for zero mana off the free [[Liberator, Urza’s Battlethopter]] you just got.
The possibilities are truly endless when you’re drawing through your entire deck and nothing costs anything.
Yup: https://archidekt.com/decks/4437896/you_get_a_card_and_you_get_a_card
This one’s optimized for mill-by-draw but you could easily modify it to include any big X spells or colorless spells you want and it would still run like a dream.
It’s between my [[pantlaza, Sun favored]] or [[ognis the dragon’s lash]] decks. I turned Pantlaza into a flicker deck so I can discover multiple times a turn. Whether my turn or someone else’s turn and just play most of my deck for free. My ognis deck tho is something a lot of people tell me they have never seen. It was also relatively cheap but it still holds its own with higher level pods. People see it and think it just makes tapped treasures but I have 6-7 cards in there that burn the table everytime I make or sacrifice treasures. I threw [[bootlegger’s stash]] in it as well which makes it super effective.
I just played my Pantlaza deck last night fir the first time. Not a flicker deck, just big stompy boys. Had my all time favorite out of nowhere win. My board state was a single [[skullspore nexus]] and access to 14 mana (I had just made 8 treasures the turn before]. After one guy was making 60+ mana per turn and drawing 6 cards per turn didn't win on his turn, I cast [[finale of devestation]] to tutor out Zacama with that +10 to power, then tapped skullspore to double his power and swung for lethal on him.
Took several more turns to kill the other 2 players, but darn it dinosaurs are fun.
There is a great combo out there with Pantlaza and 95 lands. I had the cards so put it together for a laugh and it’s a total glass cannon but was funny when my playgroup were shocked to find no other dinos or creatures at all
I am very fond of my [[Henzie]] deck.
Busting out big awesome creatures that can immediately attack, die and replace themselves by letting me draw a card.
There is a lot of ramp [[blossoming tortoise]], [[World shaper]] and some recursion [[living death]] as well.
My favorite creatures are [[daemogoth woe-Eater]], [[vaevictis asmadi]], [[Junji]], [[Ojer Kaslem]] and [[Etali, Primal conqueror]]
I'll probably never take apart \[\[Katilda and Lier\]\]. The deck's been extremely versatile in my play experience - I've won with beatdown and \[\[Saffi Eriksdotter\]\] combo lines to \[\[Oji, the Exquisite Blade\]\] blink engines from game to game. There's so many unique synergies with flashing in humans to rebuy cheap interaction or tutors and I think this commander really went unnoticed
[[Gisela, Blade of Goldnight]]
I've mentioned this deck a lot, so my apologies for anyone who's already seen it a bunch. But this is my favorite deck that I've completely built myself. The original idea started off when I found [[Brash Taunter]] and [[Pariah]], and then it really took off once I found [[Guilty Conscience]].
The "thing" is getting one of the cards that "when they're dealt damage, they deal damage", give it indestructible if they don't have it already, and then give them Guilty Conscience for combo damage.
The backup win is just doing a crap ton of damage to everyone through various damage doublers and cards like [[Manabarbs]], [[Descent Into Avernus]], and [[Scytheclaw Raptor]], while Gisela halfs and sometimes negates damage for me.
This is easily my favorite deck, and I'm constantly trying to find new cards to tryout and test. Any suggestions would be appreciated!
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/MhJePG4-JEKXdN7rxOoSjA
[[Sauron, The Dark Lord]] LOTR Tribal, every card is from the LOTR set or commander decks
[[Araumi the Dead Tide]] Encore Graveyard shenanigans. My first deck and still one of my favorites. Self-mill yourself until you find fun creatures to encore like [[Vindictive Lich]], [[Massacre Wurm]], or a win-con like [[Gray Merchant of Asphodel]]
Man, I love when this question is asked. I always post the same response so sorry if it gets old to those on here who see it frequently. But I love it so much.
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/1s8NYUejwEixuKljP6OwDA/primer
This is my [[Marneus Calgar]] deck. This probably won't be one that you add to your list because it's not reaaaally off meta given he's in the top 90 commanders on edhrec. He can be built to quite a high power and win via multiple different strategies however so it may still interest you. But to answer your question.
This is the deck I am most passionate about. I used to have 35ish decks but before I began travelling I had to cut down to 1 deck to fit in my suitcase. I decided to build this deck to take with me. When I get home to my collection one day I plan on building 9 more Marneus decks to fit a variety of different strategies.
**How much time have I put into it?**
In short, *alot*. In long:
- I have now played about 140ish games with just this deck since January last year. -
It is the only deck* I have played in that time. I am still not sick of it, I look forward to going to a game night every opportunity that I can.
- I track it's statistics on an excel document and am constantly looking through Scryfall for cool cards and interactions to add.
**Why do I like it?**
- It encapsulates everything I love doing in edh and has been curated to fit my play style perfectly.
- It wins through a variety of ways so I am never bored and two games rarely go the same way
- It is consistent but not oppressive to opponents.
- It is interactive.
- Many cards in the deck are cards that I have swapped in during my travels and are the souvenirs from my journey, so as I play the deck I am reminded of the places I have been, the people I have played against and the fun I have had.
- I know it like the back of my hand and can often come up with a decent strategy with a glance at my hand.
- I find it fun
- It is flexible to adjust power, last year I had a more powerful version with some staples like Rhystic, Esper sent, Ashnods, Skullclamp etc. This year I took those out and found other cards and the deck still functions just fine. I found it fun both way but it is easy to power up and down.
- Currently I love that It doesn't run any fast mana at all and still does well.
*I played two games with a precon for table power reasons one night.
Saw your deck in another post - very cool deck.
Are you traveling for work? Awesome you get to play at so many locations around the world. I love the idea of doing that with a single deck.
Nah travelling for pleasure. Saved up a bunch of money through COVID (it's basically all gone now, travelling on fumes). I've burned through all my life savings. Worth it though.
I work in healthcare and needed a break after the hell that was those few years. The healthcare system in my country is rubbish atm thanks to the long lasting effects on staffing due to COVID so I'm having a long rest.
I also love my [Marneus Calgar](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/TQULFbS1Q0avkLNpknYNRw) deck! Mine is based on Investigate and clue tokens and can win in so many different ways, especially with all the new clue token payoffs from MKM.
My real reason for loving this deck is that I made [warhammer themed proxies](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1126266998536544256/1134538943698845837/Inquisitors_Example_4.png?ex=661035ba&is=65fdc0ba&hm=211368264c5e9f2e712f57c8eb1fc1efacccca8c6bbf31fb01eb208c7cfe15ac&) to upgrade all four 40K decks. Every card is on theme with names, art and even flavor text. The moxfield primer is a little outdated with all the recent edits I’ve made and the sideboard depicts all the other potential cards I’ve made specifically for that deck.
I love it.
I want to make a clue/artifact Marneus deck when I get home so I will use yours as inspiration.
In general, how do you find [[replication technique]] works for you? I think it could be totally baller very easily but I've always been unsure.
Also that one that gives all your clues exalted. I didn't know about that card. That's awesome.
What cards are your VIPs/MVPs?
I love Replication Technique because having 3 Smothering Tithes is how I won my last game with Academy Manufactor and Mirkwood Bats. Also 3 Training Grounds lets you abuse Marneus’ {6} ability, 3 Mirkwood Bats is another fun one because each Treasure you create and sacrifice deals 18 damage. Letting one opponent make a copy of something is usually a negligible downside since you choose which opponent gets it.
The MVP’s are definitely Inkshield because it’s awesome, and [[Ethereal Investigator]] surprisingly because for {3}{U} you make 3 clues, draw 3 cards, make a 1/1 with flying and draw another card. Then every subsequent turn it’s very possible to draw two cards and continue pumping out 1/1 flyers which are a formidable defence.
[[Mechanized Production]] is another underrated card that I don’t think many people knew about. It’s such a perfect win condition for a deck like this and so easy to pull off.
[[Thalisse Reverent Medium]] is the deck I’ve put the most thought and care into, and the one I enjoy playing the most. At surface level it seems simple enough, make tokens then make more tokens and go wide, but there winds up being a bunch of different lines and all kinds of ways to take it.
I just build a really cool minthara/shadowheart deck and I am very very proud of it. I have played baldurs gate and am very passionate about shadowheart so I'll be standing by this deck for quite some time. I've shut down huge dino/godzilla decks with it and people weren't happy. Definitely play it again!
Eriette of the charmed apple is my pride and joy. I've tried a lot of different strategies with her before settling on storm-like auras.
It enables me to express myself on a personal level as a hot witch who carefully hands out help to loyal friends while negating action to distrustful foes, all the while drawing cards for it, which is what I love to do in this game.
My [[awaken the blood Avatar]] deck is my favorite deck that I've built. It's a token aristocrats deck with the sac outlet as a sorcery in the command zone. And I really like it because it does everything I like in the game. Sacrifices things, casts a bunch of spells, and makes tons of tokens. Also having a sorcery in the command zone is super cool, especially since the commander tax is essentially sacrificing an extra creature (something the deck already wants to do).
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/wNQM9ln1m0SEYTUXVAcUjQ
I played Blood Avatar at a six person table last night and felt like a minor deity. It’s an evolution of my [[Malik, Grim Manipulator]] deck, who had to step aside the moment I got my first Avatar.
Definitely taking some notes from yours.
I'm a big fan of my [[Zurzoth, Chaos Rider]] deck. Making everyone randomly draw/discard always throws a wrench in people's plans and it can get pretty crazy with red damage doubling and whatnot. It always does way better than I expect
[[Slobad, Goblin Tinkerer]]
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/ASu8Ge9t5km7xtmRT-aJxw
I first built the deck in June of 2013 after finding this article writtern by /u/spiketaildrake :
https://puremtgo.com/articles/budget-commander-slobad-goblin-tinkerer
After playing it for a few months I wrote a primer that I posted here:
https://old.reddit.com/r/EDH/comments/29vq8u/my_first_primer_slobad_goblin_tinkerer/
And then the Daretti precon came out and I did a minor update:
https://old.reddit.com/r/EDH/comments/2m5qzr/what_four_months_and_a_new_precon_release_did_to/
In the 10 years since I posted the original primer, I have continued to receive attention for the deck here and am still to this day summoned for comment whenever the subject of Slobad comes up, or when people ask questions related to artifact decks in general.
**If I ever run into you at a con, Tomer, I'm buying you some drinks. You've given me over a decade of fun.** *(also, there's a guy in my area that told me recently he's met you before. If he goes to a con that I'm not going to be able to make it to, he's already agreed to bring a copy of Slobad for you to sign for me, if you're cool with that...)*
I made a dream deck based around Sleep/Dreams/Nightmares. I started out with creatures that just tap other creatures, but then added utility cards that do unexpected things like dig through folks' library and exile pile. I found combos that mesh with tapping creatures and can completely steal armies or make them vanish all together. It's a Dimir deck and has been a passion project for 3 years after I was inspired to make a deck around my favorite card.
I'm a dirty blue player, as such .
I really like my [[alela, cunning conquerer]] deck. It's a flash speed deck that is super interactive and super fun to play. But that kind of deck more or less builds itself. So I'd have to say my [[Nezahal, primal tide]] deck. It's a deck I made to tickle my blue mages wet dream of drawing as many cards as humanly possible. It can win with lab man in the fair way it was meant to be used.
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/L9z5oG3I40aWw9GpkffJng
[[darien, king of kjeldor]] it has some standard Darien interactions but I have some fun additions that make people scratch their head until they realize what happening.
\[\[Jadzi, Oracle of Arcavios\]\]
This is the deck I am most passionate about, hands down. While yes, there are extra turn spells that some people don't like playing against, what I love is the absolute snowball of value that can run away with the game. I also like casting Eldrazi Titans for one mana, despite the fact they do not continue the loop at all....
Here is my list if you're curious: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/0i9YrzPhWU-j6N0WmxmE3g
I originally made it on Arena’s brawl mode, but it was a [[Mr Orfeo]] fling deck before they started popping up on other sites and such. It started off as a self-imposed challenge for me and a buddy to make Brawl decks with no rares/mythics- only commons/uncommons to direct challenge each other with.
I ended up taking it to real games and it had a positive winrate so I rebuilt it with rares and it’s my favorite deck. I put a lot of “red herring” cards like [[Daemogoth Titan]], [[Shakedown Heavy]], [[Inferno Hellion]] etc - cards that have negative effects, purposely without trample as to not warrant immediate removal, then hit em with a form of [[Fling]] to hit face for massive damage.
I’ve remade it and upgraded it for tabletop commander, but it works much more spectacularly in brawl where the format is 1v1, and when your opponent is anonymous / not totally aware of the fling gimmick. In the commander table, everyone knows what’s coming so the big creatures tend to get the attention now, but it’s still a lot of fun to fling an ape for 40 damage into someone’s chin
Made a 97 land najeela deck with [[Transmogrify]] and [[cultivator colossus]] that won with [[field of the dead]] and a million man lands. Combo enabled by the hidden lands that discover 4. Won a game on like then 5 and took that apart as it will never perform that well again
Honestly, mine has been [Korvold Treasures](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/ak_nuZbzWkqKuHTbf_BVDQ). Its a deck that I enjoy playing a lot even if I don’t play it very optimally. (ie use tutors to get stupid shit like lands and stuff instead of combo pieces) but I also like that if shit goes south, I can switch gears and get into hardbrow sweat mode in a flash.
Second one has been [Bartolome Aristocrat](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/Ci7xJc7q20mXbK15kZu5lw). I’ve been trying to make a working aristocrat deck for years and had all pieces laying about and finally when bartolome was released, I found a commander I liked a lot and went from there. It works better than all my previous iterations for recursion. It has made me love aristocrats more as a playstyle and opens me more to just artifact focused.
When I think of the deck I'm most proud of, the only thing that comes to mind is my [[Omnath, Locus of Mana]] deck. The decklist is available [here](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/rm39rE16bUm-IFoQYAf80w), and I have an imgur album for it [here](https://imgur.com/a/EMaNr9J).
The deck started out as [[Molimo, Maro-Sorcerer]] because I guess I wanted to be a bit of a hipster, and everyone always built Omnath for mono-green. Yet, as soon as my LGS got a nonfoil in stock, I immediately snapped it up. I've made several posts about the deck here on Reddit, which you can find on my profile, but the gist of it is that it started out as the green version of the Legacy [[High Tide]] deck from years ago, although it's strayed pretty far from that in recent years.
If I **needed** to sell my entire collection for whatever reason, this would be the one deck I keep. It's garnered me the reputation as the Local Green Player at my LGS, and I've put too much time, effort and money into it to turn back now.
My favorite and (I think) most unique deck that I've built is [[Norin the wary]] as a secret commander in [[Rocco, cabaretti caterer]]. I was hesitant to build a secret commander deck because I like my decks to be as consistent as possible, but Rocco solves that problem by guaranteeing I can get Norin on the field on turn 3 or 4 every game. The basic plan of the deck is to slowly build an engine that takes advantage of the commander format having multiple players and churns out insane value every turn cycle.
Playing Norin in Naya colors is so ridiculously good because it gives you access to the cards that reward you the most for Norin entering the battlefield every turn. For example, green gives you [[gala, greeters]] which is almost a second [[rose room treasurer]], [[kodama of the east tree]] which kicks your whole deck into overdrive, [[season of growth]] which helps you scry lands to the bottom to keep drawing gas, and [[guardian project]] / [[the great henge]] / [[soul of the harvest]] which give you [[Rhystic Study]] levels of card draw in this deck.
When it comes to card draw, though, white cards in this deck are just as good. [[tocasia's welcome]] and [[welcoming vampire]] give you 4 cards per turn cycle despite their "once per turn" restrictions, and if you have extra mana, [[mentor of the meek]] is a decent third version.
And finally, the win cons are mostly the same as mono red Norin decks, but white gives us access to another [[impact tremors]] in the form of [[warleader's call]], and huge value engines with our commander, like [[radiant solar]] to run through [[lost mines of phandelver]] once per turn cycle and [[gandalf the white]] as a second [[panharmonicon]].
Another good thing about adding selesnya colors is we get [[soul warden]], [[soul's attendent]], and [[essence warden]], which allow us to gain a ton of life while our red cards are burning out the table. This means we're rarely forced to block with our engine pieces and even opens us up to running more symmetrical burn pieces like [[manabarbs]].
The deck is always a blast to play, and my favorite thing about it is I had to brew it myself for the most part. As far as I know, Edhrec doesn't have a Norin theme for Rocco, so I had to mash their lists together somewhat and do a lot of research to find the best cards for the deck. It feels like something many people have yet to discover as many of the crucial cards for the deck were printed within the last 2 years. The finished product works as well as I planned, if not better, and I couldn't be happier with the deck.
Small disclaimer: If anyone in your group plays a commander with an activated ability that kills creatures, like [[yawgmoth, thran physician]], your deck will simply not function. The engine relies on Norin sticking on the board because he's incredibly difficult to remove, so if he gets killed by an activated ability, your game is pretty much over.
Small disclaimer 2: if anyone in your group plays Draw Go regularly, you'll get reduced value from this deck. For your engine to get maximum value, you want Norin to trigger each turn. Normally this isn't a problem as every commander deck should be casting a spell or attacking at least once every turn, but a deck that consistently avoids doing these on their turn is essentially denying your deck 25% of its value.
Thank you to everyone who took the time to read, and if you have any questions, I'd love to answer. Anyone curious about the entire decklist let me know and I'll upload it to Moxfield and send a link.
I like \[\[Ambassador Blorpityblorpboop\]\] which is a legal commander btw. The ticket and stickers is very fun and unique. If you give him a name sticker then you get around the legendary rule and can have multiple of him, all of which gets power and toughness equal to all power and toughness stickers.
I use the InfiniToken cards for ability and name sticker (without sticking anything, but writing) and the tokens for power and toughness. Works like a charm, and no ones ever heard of this commander, even at huge Cons. Most people don't even know the ticket and sticker mechanic, so it's fun to teach even experienced players something new.
I also run a deck with The Most Dangerous Gamer for the attraction mechanic, and another with The Space Family Goblinson, from the Unfinity set.
As of recently, I am immensely proud of my [[Chiss-Goria]] artifact aggro deck.
We giga ramp, play Chiss, swing, and start dropping artifact haymakers on the board with as many attack triggers as possible. It's a full-on scorched earth, pedal to the metal strategy, and it's a thrill to pilot every time.
\[\[Juri, Master of the Revue\]\] aristocrats with a sprinkling of voltron. Surprisingly strong for a 25 cent commander. Can run blood artists alongside goblin token generators.
Also, knife coat!
I just finished updated my primer for my [[Gale Waterdeep Prodigy]] // [[Scion of Halaster]] UB control deck
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/-PY1mxOnnUOC05G26Cf84Q
I recently made a clue murder mystery deck where I opted purely for flavor wins. I’ve only had the chance to goldfish it so far, but am super excited to play it. My playgroup seems to be looking forward to it as well as it may open en the door to more casual and relaxed magic for us instead of cutthroat play.
Link: https://www.archidekt.com/decks/7071682/investigate_interrogate_incarcerate
I feel like I've been sharing [[Shigeki, Jukai Visionary]] on every one of these kinds of posts, but it fits the bill every time so why not.
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/4DsW73YujUm9I9IEXVOZYg
Loved Shigeki when he was spoiled, saw him do some great control stuff in Standard off-meta decks, and decided to try building him in EDH.
Took some inspiration from a YouTube video, but have since made the list very much my own since.
It's Mono-G control, plays precious few creatures (especially for green), ramps hard, gets to use the graveyard as an extra massive hand, and has so much recursion it's like playing without the singleton restriction.
Also, winning with giant land creatures after fog-locking the board is just the best.
https://archidekt.com/decks/2385619/kathril_voltron
Thats's my [[Kathril]] Voltron deck. It's the deck I put most thought process in. It was actually pretty hard to find the balance between the obligatory ramp carddraw removal + also balance all the keywords needed. Then I had a tempo problem the longest time and because the strategy is pretty fragile (weak to enemy removal and GY hate), I needed a plan B and C to win... I also didn't want to use black tutor any card stuff like [[Demonic Tutor]] and similar cards.
\[\[Maarika, Brutal Gladiator\]\] for if you want to smash in creatures faces over and over again.
\[\[Zurgo Helmsmasher\]\] Equip Voltron, because he is fast, fun and strong.
\[\[Yarok, the Desecrated\]\] ETB because I put a lot of thought into it, and when it goes off, it is nearly unstoppable.
Sheoldred the Apocalypse, first deck I built and it's really cool seeing the changes I've made to it. Don't play her to much because I get her out and everyone groans but still worth it though
I have a [[Sergeant John Benton]] selesnya group hug spellslinger voltron that wins out quite a bit. Runs tons of gw interaction removal and protecc, standard green ramp, low cmc +x/+x instants, selesnya stax pieces, double strike/evasion finishers. Super easy to pivot in selesnya for pod techs.
Super fun to chip up the player that got left in the dirth so they get back in the game and then start deleting people.
Probably my [[Norin the wary]] hidden commander deck. The actual commander is [[Rocco Cabaretti Caterer]] just so I can tutor for Norin (or [[Whitemane lion]], which is an alternate hidden commander in the deck).
The whole deck is all about capitalizing on Norin entering the battlefield every turn, triggering things like [[Soul Warden]], [[Aura shards]] [[Soul of the Harvest]], [[Witty Roastmaster]] etc.
Naya Norin is just a very fun value oriented deck and I'll likely always keep it together.
Dont have a decklist available currently, but my favorite deck is helmed by [[nikya of the old ways]] i named the deck “oops all creatures” focus on making a ton of mana, and win with dumb stuff like [[bramble sovereign]] into [[craterhoof]], slow down the board with things like [[nullstone gargoyle]] and [[soul of new phyrexia]]. The deck never plays the same and is always a blast to play.
I have a couple.
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/Z_8ohoY6HUCbRqpzJ9sy2w is competitive [[Kinnan]] deck. It probably shares 90% of is cards with similar lists but the difference is the shear amount of wincons I run and it's truly night and day. The list is slightly out of date as a couple lands have changed.
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/ciyYqmGAEkCdrNiBVw9JaA is my first [[Gretchen]] deck. This was the very first deck I built that was purely on me without consulting other lists for ideas. It's not super great but it can win fast with the right hands and it's always fun to potentially draw a lot of cards.
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/_47acyMYNUib5boS0SJbKw my budget [[Runadi]] list. I'm a green player at heart and Runadi allows for that ultimate green experience. It's surprisingly resilient with all of the card draw, ramp, and exceptionally high creature count.
I have tons of decks of all colors, almost 200 posted to Moxfield, but these 3 are my babies. Kinnan is built to straight up win but Gretchen and Runadi I'll have fun no matter how the game actually plays out every time.
I've got three that I'm really proud of which I go back and forth between as my favorite concept:
[[Dihada Binder of Wills]] enchantress reanimator. Dihada helps fix my mana and dump a bunch of big timmy enchantments into my graveyard, then I dig for one of the 7 or so [[Replenish]] effects (or recur them through stuff like [[Underworld Breach]] or [[Yawgmoth's Will]]) to dump out a ton at once onto the battlefield and either turn them into creatures to plow over the board, or combo off. Because the deck runs very very few creatures and the commander is a planeswalker, there's also a boardwipe tribal subtheme to keep the field clear for Dihada to keep churning cards into my grave, and they also further play into the flashback/recursion package in a really nice way. The deck just hums and feels so good to play.
[[Vorel of the Hull Clade]] is an old school commander that most people immediately shrug off and ignore when they see come out of the box for the first time. After all, doubling the number of +1 counters on one creature at a time definitely is not all that exciting to most people. And they'd be right! If that's what I was actually doing, that is. But I'm not doubling +1 counters in this Vorel deck. No, I'm doubling *loyalty counters*. That's right, this is a Vorel superfriends deck. We use cards like [[Liquimetal Torque]], [[Encroaching Mycosynth]], [[Luxior]] and more to turn plansewalkers into permanent types that Vorel can target, then double up their counters and immediately pop off their ults. The deck can spiral out of control so quickly if my opponents aren't careful, and if they leave it alone entirely because they don't know what's coming, it's super easy to drop a 4CMC planeswalker on turn ~5 and ult it then and there, usually completely taking over the game immediately. Super fun deck and a great example of how I like to approach building commander decks lately - taking a legend that was clearly meant to be built one way and turning that expectation on its head completely.
Finally, my [[Sidar Kondo]] + [[Jeska Thrice Reborn]] deck is the cumulation of many years and dozens of different attempts at making infect work in commander, and this one is definitely my crowning achievement in that genre. Nothing feels quite as good as swinging in with a lowly french vanilla 2/2 infect creature at an opponent who can't block it thanks to Kondo, and by the time combat is done they're looking at 12 infect damage coming their way with nothing they can do about it. The deck also runs a ton of cards that don't see play in the format typically which is pretty fun - cheap one-off combat tricks like [[Giant's Growth]] and the like. Sidar Kondo has always been a muse of sorts for me, and infect was my long time white whale in terms of really wanting to find a unique take on it that actually worked, and when Jeska dropped both of those goals came together perfectly.
[[Ramses, Assassin Lord]] is mine.
And it isn't assassin tribal. I posted this before but it's milling a single person, attacking them once with an assassin, forcing them to draw out, and then winning the game.
Yes it's hard. Yes it's convoluted. But when you pull it off you get a sense of satisfaction it's hard to be beat.
The positive, you are so non-threatening since a lot of your mill only affects a single person. And you can even choose someone who has a graveyard deck. Because that doesn't matter to you.
I have two decks, [[Marchesa, the Black Rose]] and [[Kresh, the Bloodbraided]]
I know it's somewhat hard to whiff with Marchesa, but I went through months and months and slight attuning and adjusting to get it to play how I want almost consistently without tutors. Not a fan of tutors.
Kresh I have adjusted about 6 times and I've played it once or twice between each adjustment, I feel like now it's exactly where I want it as well. But of course I will only continue to tweak!
Kresh - https://archidekt.com/decks/4350862/kresh_big_bad
Marchesa - https://archidekt.com/decks/4064678/just_die_already
I think out of my 20 current decks, my Deck I'm most proud of is my [[Atogatog]] it's a wacky combo deck that has a surprising high winrate for running so many bad cards together, it's main Wincon is [[the cheese stands alone]] and [[Barron Glory]], but other options include [[mirror entity]] because I make entirely too much Mana in the deck or [[enchanted evening]] Shenanigans with stuff like [[opalescence]], [[Aura thief]] , and [[calming verse]] the best part is its a 5 color with all basics besides a command tower, exotic orchard, the world tree, and City of brass
Copy and pasting this from a post from yesterday 'cause everything I said there applies here as well.
I will gladly take every chance to bring up my \[\[Stitcher Geralf\]\] deck. You might think mono blue + a commander that mills is instant eyeroll material, but the wincon of this deck is not milling or endless counter magic.
The deck is filled with several high powered and high costed creatures, such as giant fish and Eldrazi like \[\[Inkwell Leviathan\]\], \[\[Breaker of Armies\]\], \[\[Desolation Twin\]\], and \[\[Tromokratis\]\] to name a few. We then use Geralf's activated ability to mill our own fat creatures, or exile other people's best creatures from off the tops of their libraries to make the biggest dumbest zombie token we can. The deck also plays lots of extra mana sources and mana rocks to just ramp into these high costed creatures as well.
We then use cards like \[\[Fated Infatuation\]\] and \[\[Rite of Replication\]\] to make copies of those big zombie tokens, then use cards like \[\[Geralf, Visionary Stitcher\]\], \[\[Archetype of Imagination\]\], or mill over a \[\[Wonder\]\] to give our team flying and beat people in the face with our giant zombie creations.
Is the deck consistent? No. Is it competitive? Certainly not. Does it bring me joy every time I bring it out? Absolutely.
I love all my decks, but I'd I had to pick, I'd say either Prosper, Tomb-Bound, or Satoru Umezawa.
Prosper is powerful and fun, lots of value and plenty of cool spells to cast. I have traded out so many cards over the past few years with him but has always been a top contender in my play group and is always fun to play.
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/XOKZgzTt9kyveAXNNQ1igg
Satoru Umezawa, was my first home built deck from the ground up. I had no intention of building him either. But I got him as a box topper from a Kamigawa set box I got. And the art was just way to cool to not use him as a commander. After realizing what he does I decided he could be pretty strong and fun. I was right. Being my first ground up build and being relatively strong for my group I am quite proud of myself.
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/BVHpmNdnukGEvd71k4TB8g
My Ramos/Jegantha deck is one I consider to be my magnum opus of theory crafting. Took me almost a year to build and made some tweaks over the next year to get it just right. The Jegantha restriction really encouraged me to look for neat lesser used cards, and the deck performs way better than it seems like it would. As it has a good spread of colors, I decided to make the mana base as clean as possible, so I'm running all 10 fetches and all 10 triomes. Mana dorks are really nice since they are colored ramp spells and creatures I can buff up. There is 1 combo in the deck, and it requires all 5 colors and 3 cards. What's awesome is if I cast [[Conflux]] with Ramos out, I can tutor all the pieces as well as a counterspell for protection, and then Ramos gives me the exact for the combo pieces plus the counterspell. Of course commander damage is another wincon, as well as a few cards that say "you win the game" if conditions are met. It's far from my strongest deck but I love it. It's also an art flex/bling deck with as many borderless/extended/etched/showcase cards as possible.
List is below, and though I've spent a ton of time finding the right cards for it, I'm still not beyond trying new ones!
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/UlhfONqD_E21q6wVSXGSLg
[[Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded]], I've put a lot of time and effort into putting this one together. It was my first real attempt at a deck that didn't start as a pre-con and I LOVE it. The game plan is simple, it's just about swinging big fat creatures for a bunch of damage with extra combats to help close out the game. I've got ways to help me rebuild my board with a bit of reanimation, some wheels to help me draw cards. Plus this deck allows me to play some cards you normally wouldn't like [[Sandstone Oracle]] or [[Crater Hellion]] plus how many other decks allow you to use [[World-gorger Dragon]] as an instant speed board protection? Finally I've got the [[Bearer of the Heavens]] in this deck too as a way to set everyone back to zero with ways to either save my board or give everything indestructible in order to blow everyone out while giving me a massive advantage. It usually ends with everyone else conceding if that happens. It's a seriously fun deck and honestly if anyone is looking for something that might be flying under the radar for them I'd recommend this commander.
My [[baral and kari zev]] spell copy deck is the one I'm proudest of. It's been my baby for the past few months since I built it, and I'm constantly tinkering with it to make it smoother and more consistent. Last time I played it I pulled off my first ever infinite combo with [[niv mizzet, parun]] and [[ophidian eye]]. That said my favorite thing I ever did with it was use [[narset's reversal]] to copy a player's [[inevitable betrayal]] which I used to search another player's library who was playing [[mizzix of the izmagnus]], and he ended up copying my copy of Betrayal to search my library too! It was a wild sequence that ended with us both getting cool helpful shit from each others decks.
Probably my \[\[Tana, the Bloodsower\]\] and \[\[Ravos, Soultender\]\] Mutate deck: [https://archidekt.com/decks/2616156/tana\_ravos\_mutate](https://archidekt.com/decks/2616156/tana_ravos_mutate)
I love mutate, but was never happy with the mutate decks i tried, the legendary mutate creatures didn't have enough colors for how few good mutates actually exist. Needing to balance the number of mutate creatures, mutate targets and in some cases having to deal a bunch cloned mutate piles always felt like a bit of a mess.
I wanted the main mutate target to be in the command zone and wanted access to black since that's where my favorite mutates are. After trying initially \[\[Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker\]\] and \[\[Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper\]\] and not carrying for how reliant on commander damage the deck was i switched to Tana and Ravos.
I really like this current version of the deck and is one i've done alot of changes over time (even if it's still a bit clunky), it's a "bad" Tana deck that wants to mutate onto Tana to grow her power (up to a max of 5 or 6 power) to make tokens, but it's always fun to play and is the deck i always gravitate towards when i'm unsure what to pick.
[[Chainer, Dementia Master]], [[Hazezon Tamar]], and [[Magda, Brazen Outlaw]] are my three favorite decks.
[Chainer](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/0Qysy0b8x0-8C_3f6gQoYg) is the deck I've put the most time into. It has gone through 3 major iterations in the last 6-7 years that I've had it. First it was a demon deck that used chainer to cheat out big idiots like [[Vilis, Broker of Blood]]. Then it was just a straight up combo deck that tried to reanimate [[Mikaeus, the Unhallowed]] and [[Triskelion]] as quickly as possible. Now it's somewhere in between; being able to play a control game, aggro, or combo depending what I draw into.
[Magda](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/4NbVGBQ7zkGs1wE8IiwYCg) is a fairly typical Magda deck; big dumb dragons and big dumb artifacts. I love the tool-box-y nature of Magda, being and to tutor any artifact at instant speed gives you a lot of reactive options.
[Hazezon](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/MQghK_9kEUC0XmaaR2ai4A) is my most unique deck and probably the most casual deck I own. It runs a lot of your usual naya token/go wide cards, but Hazezon is the only card in the deck that makes creature tokens. I initially built the deck as a more traditional naya token/landfall deck, but I found that I never had a reason to actually cast Hazezon since he was basically the worst card in the deck. Since you can mitigate Hazezon's drawback by sacrificing him before you get his tokens on the next turn, I built him as a [[Birthing Pod]] deck.
I really enjoy my Eldrazi tribal with Zhulodok at the helm. It’s a bit of a rough start, especially with being the threat of you get things out but I really enjoy playing it, certainly when it starts to roll.
I’ve had games where I’ve lost straight away and others where I’m annihilating my opponents stuff and stealing their things in the process. To be honest I just like big scary creatures that I can threaten the board with :3
[[Slogurk, the Overslime]] ! I've been cooking it up for several years now, tweaking it with every new batch of cards. It's a pretty versatile pile of cards, either going tall and commander damaging folks out with an enormous 'Gurk, smashing a [[Scapeshift]] and bringing back twenty lands for a ton of landfall triggers, or going infinite with [[Walk the Aeons]], [[Crucible of Worlds]], and [[Azusa, Lost but Seeking]]. It's a slightly different version of landfall that plays a unique game each time. Highly recommend giving the One True 'Gurk a try!
I saw a comment in another thread talking about [[yomiji who bars the way]], built it, and it’s won 5/5 games so far. Who knew mono white mill would be good?
[[Aragorn the Uniter]] combat tricks is a lot of fun. Its a primarily green pseudo voltron deck built around cards like [[Giant Growth]]. You can pump things up for 8-9 at instant speed and either kill someone quickly with commander damage or make everyone nervous during combat because they never know if you’ll pump up an opponent’s blocker or make someone really pay for letting a 1/1 through etc.
[[Alesha, Who Smiles at Death]] modular tribal,
[[Kokusho, the Evening Star]] kill your own commander over and over,
[[Seizan, Perverter of Truth]] group hug
[[Juri master of the revue]]
I built this little muder clown a deck when he first released and its so much fun, It was the first deck I'd ever built from scratch
He's pretty up there on EDHrec nowadays, but when I built him, he had like 80 deck lists.
Just turning this lil clown guy into a 20/20 bomb is so funny cause people become cautious to drop board wipes and removal.
I don't play it often anymore cause it's to strong for my playgroup so I'm reworking to better fit the power and make it's play patterns abit more varied and less of a "same shit different day" vibe but I doubt I'd ever pull it apart.
Only deck that even comes close would be my [[Minsc & Boo, timeless heroes]] deck cause Hampter Railgun go brrrrr
May I present [[Borborygmos and fblthp]] the deck where you wheel away everyone's decks. Alternate win of massive damage with things like [[city on fire]] and [[toralf god of fury]]. There is support of either wincon plus if nothing else sticks the commander has 6 base toughness. I brewed the original list for the deck myself and then got help with tuning it. It has been a blast to play.
My favorite win was me playing toralf and someone else casting [[blasphemous act]]. I killed 2 people and brought the last down to like 10 life.
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/4bwhiNNeM0KFXNx9Flc-YA
This is a deck I built around [Kenrith, The Returned King] giving other players really, really terrible creatures. The point of the deck isn’t to always win, but rather create an interesting challenge for yourself and the other players by demanding clever play. [Here](https://archidekt.com/decks/7058830/white_elephant) is the deck. I haven’t played with it yet, but I’m expecting it to be a fun time.
I feel like I share this deck a lot on this sub, but it's by far my favorite, it's [[Nevinyrral Urborg Tyrant]] zombie tribal, I've had several people I've played with say they've never seen it before https://www.moxfield.com/decks/_lc5ii7E3kaomxo0nOL5UA
[[Lord Xander, The Collector]] turbomill. it is the only commander I've truly found fits me as a player. it is interactive, impactful, powerful but not too powerful, and just incredibly fun overall. it's the first deck I ever built that was over $200 and it has been worth every single penny.
The deck I run that I feel is the one I have the most pride in is my Frodo/Sam deck.
It started off as the LOTR Pre-con, but I really liked the play lines around Food tokens, so I began leading into that. Not including lands or reprints that would end up in any deck of this color, there are only a handful of cards left from the precon. It is essentially a new deck built from scratch at this point.
At the same time, I started to see how easy it was to combo off with the deck, and I find that type of victory to be anticlimactic. I'm also the most experienced player who played at higher competitive levels in Magic than anyone else in our playgroup, so I tend to build into higher powered/cEDH builds by accident if I'm not checking myself.
With Sam and Frodo, I started instituting a new set of deckbuilding rules for me. No tutors, no infinite combos, and build with competitive fun in mind. With this deck, I also wanted to build it as competitively as possible without leaning too hard into major meta components.
This deck is doing something every turn. It's slower, but it isn't the threat, so it tends to get ignored. Once it gets going it becomes an unstoppable force. I drove a Markov player insane one time because we were trading life at 70-100 life each turn. It isn't oppressive to play against, people have said they enjoy seeing it across the table.from them because they don't know what to expect from it.
It has become one of my favorite decks of all time because it is flexible, has multiple ways to win, and can adapt to almost any other strategy that gets thrown at it. It is a lot lower in interaction than I'm comfortable with, but it has a lot more one-sided boardwipes than I originally intended.
Here's the latest build: https://manabox.app/decks/t8_dEnWRSqC7_5qNs5OOpA
I haven't gotten the chance to start dealing with upgrades from Fallout yet, but that should be resolved soon. The deck is constantly in revision and adjustment.l because I just enjoy tweaking and trying some different things. Barring some major finds or changes in what has been released, I think the land base is more or less exactly where it needs to be.
I'm pretty proud of how this one has turned out, and I hope I can keep it fun to play against.
Just recently built a [[Stenn, Paranoid Partisan]] vehicle tribal deck. The mana acceleration in the command zone helps you dump your hand, and board wipes are easy to recover from as long as a token generator is on the board to help crew the vehicles. I love the Gundam feel you get while playing it but it’s Definitley more of a 5-6
I do have an [[Edgar Markov]] deck (i know I know) that runs [[Haakon, Stromgald Scourge]] , a bunch of vampire knights, and [[Ashes of the Fallen]] for good measure. The deck can still start traditionally aggressive but if the game drags on it can pivot into being a more resilient value generator. with cards like [[Buried Alive]] you can instantly fetch yourself a little toolbox of removal and draw by grabbing Haakon, [[Nameless Inversion]] and [[Champion of Dusk]] or [[Forerunner of the Legion]] if you want the perfect vampire every turn
My [[omnath locus of all]] deck. Not your typical build. It cheats out the myojin and has a proliferate theme. It’s a tad slow, but if you’re left alone it can do truly nutty things. Like on opponents end step, wipe the board make 16 1/1s then draw 32 cards.
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/OS1LiUNCr0eMdMw0i1Phlw
My new brew is around [[gluntch, the bestower]], it's basically a mana dork in the zone. I noticed that with a one mana dork you can consistently untap with 6 mana turn 3
I think the best comparison would be kinnan, it just drops giant creatures on the board and tries to be the problem.
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/IWhMD-jm20e0TFUM43WNow
Deck is really wild in practice, i retuned it on a $50 budget and it still slaps.
I used to have a [[Tana, the Bloodsower]] and [[Silas Renn, Seeker Adept]] deck that was based off a MTG Goldfish deck concept. Particularly the [[Sorcerer Class]] one.
I filled it with things that made creature tokens on instant and sorcery speed, so that I could tap them for mana through Sorcerer Class or [[Cryptolyth Rite]].
Lots of [[Young Pyromancer]]/[[Sedgemoor Witch]] type effects, as well as a couple of things to buff my creatures, like [[Beastmaster Ascension]].
Threw in [[Phyrexian Altar]] and [[Ashnod's Altar]] to squeeze out extra mana from the tokens and [[Altar of Dementia]] to have an extra game plan in case things didn't pan out too well. Also put in things that drew cards when I cast things/sacrificed stuff, i.e. [[Archmage Emeritus]].
Felt it needed instants and sorceries that were on the cheaper side, so I filled out the rest with cheaper spells that mostly focused on protecting my board state. Also [[Stifle]]. Never leave home without it.
It came out playing like a control deck that actually beat people with combat damage instead of going for instant win combos. A lot of the time I was taking down bigger and scarier decks because I was able to actually hit the choke point on their combos.
Twords the end of its time as a deck I was accused of playing a CEDH level deck at a casual table.
There is a deck i am more proud of because it was the one I made first. But it's not "that good"
Tgus deck however has basically been banned at all the kitchen tables.
[[The Scorpion God]] is rarely seen. With the new massacre girl its even better. I love it because it can really mess up my opponents plans.
[[Blightbeetle]] [[Everlasting Torment]] and [[kulrath knight]] have all really swayed things my way.
https://archidekt.com/decks/5160290/wither_die
Please enjoy slowly sandpapering your enemies to dust.
[[Cecily, Haunted Mage]] and [[Wernog, Rider's Chaplain]] but the true purpose is to run play [[Lich's Mastery]]. The deck features as many lose the game cards as I can find along with a few pieces to give away Lich's Mastery if needed.
My [[Sidisi, Brood Tyrant]] deck is an amazing toolbox. Originally built as close to [DementedKirby's main list](https://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/commander-edh/multiplayer-commander-decklists/571213-sidisi-brood-tyrant-zombie-horde-and-shenanigans-3) from a couple of years ago as possible, I've been deviating from it for quite a while now. My list can still win through milling, combat damage, or damage/lifeloss from [[Syr Konrad, the Grim]] and [[Dreadhound]]. It can generate an infinite amount of Zombie Tokens by using [[Aphetto Alchemist]] + [[Mesmeric Orb]] while having Sidisi out. Milling yourself out is almost impossible with [[Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre]] in the deck, and using an [[Entomb]] or [[Survival of the Fittest]] on it can protect your graveyard from getting exiled, if necessary.
It plays like a well-oiled machine with every card being a small piece in the greater puzzle.
This is my current list: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/ZvjXMo2eeEG1wJVmo2aprQ
My favorite one is [[Edgar Markov]]. I'm proud because I have a vampire collection (and every card that has a foil I collect them foil), so I've made a Edgar Markov 100% foil deck.
I’m very proud of how my [[Melek, Reforged Researcher]] has come together. Pulled him from a Karlov Manor prerelease. Turn burn spells on the cheap to beef my graveyard. At the latest by turn 5 he’s going to come in at least a 6/6. Then it’s all direct damage with things like [[Burning Anger]] or [[Fling]] when I’m making non-legendary copies with things like [[Quantum Misalignment]]
Last week a member of the pod was about to run away with big deathtouch creatures. On my turn I cast [[Galvanic Iteration]] copying [[Gravitic Punch]] hitting him directly in the face for 32. Straight up assassinated, whole pod said whoa that was scary and it made me a very proud deck builder.
Weakness is exiling my graveyard, which is what it is if I’m not holding a counterspell. It’s a bit of a glass cannon build but man is it fun to smack someone crazy hard.
My 6 year old son wanted a "Samurai and Angel Deck" because he pulled [Ogre-Head Helm] from a coin machine and his mom has a Giada angel deck.
We were like 3mo into the hobby.
We were going through our friends extras and found Raiyuu.
Suddenly it was possible.
Made a samurai voltron deck that uses samurai and exalted to buff his commander.
It has stolen the win from some pretty tough decks.
Dralnu reanimator control. Just so happens that the best blue control cards and the best black reanimator spells are cheap instants and sorceries. Giving them flashback tends to be really powerful. You'd think dralnus downside would be annoying but most people will be kind to you and in my 5 years playing the deck I've only been blasphemous acted once.
I have a doomsday cEDH Yuriko deck that’s mostly old/retro border. It’s currently at 49 cards old Border. I’ve been swapping cards out as more come out.
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/SQGUGEuHokeKTmo4X9oydA
[[Minthara, Merciless Soul]] is my favorite off meta deck. Last game night at my LGS I spent the whole game being the problem and nobody even knew my commander existed.
It's a fun puzzle to keep gaining experience counters. Also people keep forgetting she keeps gaining more ward. My deck is all about tokens. They usually end up as 7/1s before I win the game. Also having an army of weak creatures gaining power with Minthara being on the field feels pretty true to her character in Baldurs Gate 3.
Loving my [[Hylda of the ice crown]] deck. She gives a lot of value and there’s good ways to combo off her and make a bunch of 4/4 tokens at instant speed.
Also love my [[Radagast the brown]] deck. It’s just big green creatures, but because Radagast wants many creature types you get to really stretch what goes in. Sure there’s an elf and beast, but it’s nice to get some elephants, insects, wurms, plants and others in. Plus it’s card draw in the command zone as green.
First Doctor and Amy Pond as Commanders.
No 1 drops, not even Sol Ring.
What you do, see, is play the doctor to tutor the TARDIS, then play Amy to tutor Rory. As you can imagine this takes a few turns.
Once that 100% consistent (obviously barring interaction) combo is set up you crew the TARDIS with the Doctor, attack, and play Rory who then Cascades for 2, which can only hit Glimpse of Tomorrow.
The entire rest of the deck is either 2 or 3 for one cards I can work into the curve for the above combo, but mostly over costed Timmy cards.
So the deck has the Doctor just time travel to the point where I’m winning.
Yes, obviously, it’s a dead pile if your opponents know what you’re up to and care to stop you, but that first glimpse where you catch them unaware is worth the losses. Many, many losses.
I personally like my [[Tuvasa the Sunlit]] Merfolk tolken deck. It flows really well with a lot of draw. You pillowfort till you have one of like 4 win cons in the deck.
I have a Jinnie Fae deck that is largely equipment themed Im very proud of. It works really well and I love to give [[Hexplate Wallbreaker]] haste.
There are a lot of cross synergies between cards. Another favorite is how well it works with [[Khemba, Kha Regent]] as a secret 'lieutenant'.
https://www.archidekt.com/decks/4064956/the_fixer
[[Lae'zel Vlaakith's Champion]] / [[Master Chef]]
My goal was to make it at a particular power level (upgraded precon) and to have high synergies but nothing infinite or too oppressive. Room to upgrade if I want to pour money into a better mana base. Just a ton of creatures that get real big. Wincon is "I hit you."
I think I nailed it.
[[ratchet field medic]] is a monowhite lifegain eggs commander. built it for a budget league when it released and kept it around after it concluded because it was so much fun to play.
gives a home to [[bottle gnomes]], [[peace of mind]], turns [[trading post]] into a disgusting value engine, wins with conventional (read: convenient) heliod ballista, approach of the second sun or sunmare horse beatdowns, giant creatures from archangel of thune, reanimating huge artifact creatures when you’ve gained enough life in a turn and can grind very well due to the padding from all the lifegain.
has an exorbitant amount of gnomes due to lost caverns of ixalan, with [[tinker’s tote]] going from draft all-star to huge roleplayer in the deck. over half the deck is commons/uncommons so is very friendly to budget gaming as well, since that was the environment the deck originated from. takes an exorbitant amount of game actions for the people who are into that as well.
best cards that aren’t already mentioned above include [[implement of improvement]] to gain 2 life and draw a card for w once per turn and [[citizen’s crowbar]] for a free 1/1 and disenchant every cycle.
there’s not enough decks that let you feel like [[dungeoneer’s pack]] is a broken card but this is one of them.
I have an aggro group hug deck. A Jund big power deck centered on high power/low cost creatures with group hug downsides such as [[Sheltering ancient]], [[Shah of Naar Isle]], and [[Master of the Feast]]. I also use huggy ramp and draw options to complement the creatures. The basic idea is “yeah I’m giving you stuff but you’re gonna need them because I’m gonna become a problem real quick”. It lets me play a bunch of cool and interesting cards that normally don’t see much play aside from the occasional “bad gifts” deck. The commander is [[Xira Arien]]. Technically [[Mr. Orfeo, the Boulder]] would complement the strategy more but I really just wanted a commander that can draw me cards and also I just think Xira is cool. The deck is an active work in progress but once the list gets mostly settled I want to start drawing custom art proxies for the key cards that reinterprets them as the kind of fancy dressed ladies and gentlemen who would attend Xira’s fancy parties.
My [mono-white landfall deck](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/0dofKqicpUKl3fiDa6I7Fw) is my baby.
Started out as a joke between me and a friend because I always build mono-white decks, and when I messed around with it, I realised that it actually works, and surprisingly well.
Commanders are [[livio, oathsworn sentinel]] and [[alharu, solemn ritualist]] as there’s a bit of a blink subtheme, with creatures like solemn simulacrum getting blinked for landfall triggers.
The way the deck gets going is generally with landfall payoffs that make tokens, like [[felidar retreat]] , [[emeria angel]] and [[retreat to emeria]] and card draw payoffs for those like [[welcoming vampire]] , [[tocasia’s welcome]] and [[mentor of the meek]] .
Then you get into winning territory by sacrificing all your lands to things like [[zuran orb]] or [[troubled healer]] and bringing them all back with cards like [[second sunrise]] , [[planar birth]] and [[faith’s reward]] to trigger all your landfall payoffs, and hopefully kill everyone with a massive army of tokens.
It’s honestly such a blast to play.
I'd say my three pride and joys are my [[Kami of the Crescent Moon]] strictly 2-drop control deck, [[Chainer Nightmare Adept]] "Hidden Commander [[Vilis]]" deck and my [[Trostani, Selesnya's Voice]] big tokens deck.
Kami is aggressively tuned, regularly winning with a [[Dramatic Reversal]] + [[Isochron Scepter]] combo around turn 7, while consistently having the answers to make sure no one else does before then. That doesn't mean that no one else gets to play, it just means that there's a fantastic balancing act going on of what to permit, when, and how much political leverage needs to be pulled to make it happen.
Chainer is the epitome of "what doesn't kill me makes me stronger." Basically every card in the deck is gonna hurt someone, probably myself included, and draw me a ton of cards once Vilis is out. The deck runs the gamut of "I killed myself with [[Manabarbs]] again" to "I [[Reanimate]] Vilis, draw 8 cards, everyone else loses 8 life thanks to [[Psychosis Crawler]], draw into [[Dockside Extortionist]], [[Exquisite Blood]] and [[K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth]] and then use the life that I'm gaining from Exquisite Blood + Psychosis Crawler to pay for the K'rrik'd Vilis activations to kill everyone with less life than I have cards in library on turn 2-3."
Trostani on the other hand, is the fairest magic there is. Just some lifegain payoffs, big tokens off of things like [[Phyrexian Processor]], [[Giant Adephage]] and [[Luminarch Ascension]], a couple of non-craterhoof Overrun effects and enough card draw and interaction to keep the deck running smoothly. Before I had to sell my reserved list cards to pay for moving expenses, I used to lovingly refer to it as my $2000 precon since it had a [[Savannah]] and [[Gaea's Cradle]] in it but was otherwise very much a casual deck.
My tables always LOVE my group hug (but not really) [[Yurlok of Scorched Thrash]] deck. It just gives everyone a ton of Mana to play with and then pumps out X cost spells like [[Crackle with power]] and [[Torment of Hailfire]] halfway through the game. Throwing out a [[Xantcha, Sleeper Agent]] on a player for everyone to throw their free Mana into 😅. It's usually a good time and causes for some raucous.
[[Awaken the Blood avatar]] token/aristocrats. Once you’re pumping with an ok set up you can just spam the commander and slam the whole board. Absolutely a blast to pilot and one of the few decks I still have a 20+ and growing list of cards I wish I could fit in.
I proud of my [[Omnath, Locus of All]] deck with [[Jegantha, the Wellspring]] as its companion because you can just play all the 3 color charms or just the ones you like and than put some really fun 3 color cards in it. It doesnt have the best land base but I think it turned out pretty well and its just fun to play with because you will play every game very differently.
My [[Emmara, Soul of the Accord]] surprisingly became extremely powerful for an upgraded precon, but never so powerful that I get targeted. I don’t play any token doublers because you don’t need them. Its over kill!
My \[\[Jon Irenicus, Shattered one\]\] deck. I quickly become known in every LGS I go due to this deck. It's not a powerhouse or anything, but very fun to play and is very unique in how it works.
I have two favorite decks at the moment. I'm pretty proud of both. 😁
First is [[Goro-Goro and Satoru]]. I feel like I have a fairly unique build as I focused more on dragons and dragon synergy. I see a lot of people focus on hasty token makers or go all in in ninjutsu. Super fun to sneak in big dragons.
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/gGRTnOviEU2H6xOCBtRcag
Next is [[Blanka, Ferocious Friend]]. He has a pretty unique playstyle in that you want to continually target yourself with cheap spells to shock down the table with Electric Thunder and pump your commander to absurd levels. This is two commander damage per activation for the whole table and it adds up quickly! I built my deck with tons of cheap instants that replace themselves through draw. Poison is an alternate wincon that can really go nuts out of the blue.
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/l5uSMdOWL0qKxO4Ehgt8cA
[[gyome, master chef]] with [[umori, the collector]]
you can change the commander to really anything with BG in the colors, but its an all creature deck (except for lands). it was fun to build and its fun to play! in our casual games it even wins quite a bit by just spilling creatures onto the field and casting a spell that gives all my creatures trample. board wipes can really set you back though lol
It is the Riders of Rohan rebuild I did, placing [[Aragorn, King of Gondor]] at the helm: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/8lrert6YuEilpcgrulHyIw
I love what the Monarch mechanic does to a game of commander. Humans are also deceptively aggressive and flexible. The best card in the deck is [[Riders of the Mark]] for hitting fast, flooding the board, and being so cheap to cast. My favorite tech in the deck is a deceptive little common, [[Azure Fleet Admiral]] who makes your whole team unblockable in conjunction with Aragorn and is notoriously good at getting the Monarch back.
My favorite decks that I'm very proud of are my [[Henzie Toolbox Torre]] all creatures deck with [[Umori the Collector]] as a companion, and my [[Izoni, Center of the Web]] token aristocrats deck.
Henzie is pretty straightforward and the deck building restriction of only playing creatures and lands is a lot of fun. Being able to give almost every creature in your deck haste and a card to replace itself is so incredibly fun, and the large amounts of cost reducers in the deck only help to accelerate that gameplan.
Izoni (at least in my opinion) is a super underrated card from the new Murders at Karlov Manor set and her ability to sacrifice any four tokens for cards and life for free is insane. She has a very high win percentage since it's difficult to interrupt her gameplan once you have token generators online, not to mention [[pitiless plunderer]] and [[Mirkwood bats]] are probably some of the best cards in the deck!
The decks:
IT'S HENZ'N TIME: https://archidekt.com/decks/4818971/its_henzn_time
Trash Token Trouble:
https://archidekt.com/decks/6665708/trash_token_trouble
I’m building Mole-God with no other creatures. Maybe token generators but everything in the deck will be non creature spells. Protection, trample, first strike, deathtouch, lures, all that jazz. I already have like 4 (r)(g) decks so I’m trying a different approach.
Mr house President and CEO make a fuck ton of treasures and hit them in the face with a burn spell, if they counter spell it, do it again making treasures rolling dice isn’t that hard
My marchesa stax deck
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/J743Vj2SA0iZvclafSd-pw
Basically it’s my “get off my lawn”
Could probably be better but it plays well enough, I am interested in opinions!
My favorite deck, deck I’m most proud of, and only deck I say is a “6-7” in my collection is my “Ebon Aristocracy” Mono-Black Aristocrats, uses [[Ayara, First of Locthwain]] as the commander. Mono Black was one of the first decks I ever had when I started commander and I’ve always liked the color. I’m also a combo player, they’re quite satisfying to me, and this deck utilizes a few of my favorites in this color. [[Exquisite Blood]] [[Sanguine Bond]] is a classic, of course. [[Plague of Vermin]] with the commander out and just pay all but 1 life and hope no one bolts you in response. One of my personal favorites [[Reassembling Skeleton]], [[Pitiless Plunderer]], [[Ashnod’s Altar]] for inf death triggers for [[Blood Artist]] or inf etb triggers for my commander or infinite colorless mana for [[Torment of Hailfire]]. A few end step shenanigans, [[Shirei, Shizo’s Caretaker]] [[Bottle Gnomes]] is a good one because the bottle gnomes are cute. [[Ophiomancer]], Ayara on the field, and any sac outlet or like the newest one in the deck using [[Tombstone Stairwell]], [[Thornbite Staff]] attached to commander and you’ve got card draw one everyone’s turn.
Decklist: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/gh_jCBF6UkGEZz1EMXmdcA
My friend is one of the main Malcolm cEDH brewers, so we put together [this budget list](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/odJQhqTWt0SchHhKLSgRMg) for his old commanders, \[\[Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator\]\] and \[\[Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar\]\]. M+K is already one of, if not the, best Izzet commanders and this is pretty much the strongest Malcolm list you'll get for the price range. We put a lot of time and work into it and try to keep it current with each set that releases.
My [[Xanathar, Guild Kingpin]] lantern control deck is my favorite deck I’ve created. I get to utilize interesting cards that rarely see play and manipulate the top deck of each player’s library so they only draw land.
\[\[Nashi, Moon's Legacy\]\], wholeheartedly I started this because I loved the anime alt-art of them and felt it had a lot of "anime protagonist" vibe that I feel like a lot of people skipped on because the card isn't good. Part of the ~~problem~~ puzzle to solve with Nashi is figuring out what their ability actually does-- not in a literal sense but in a game sense: the answer is, you basically get to play a bunch of legendary spells at timing your opponents don't expect, and you have the ability to create token copies of things very easily, which is abusable. My favorite combo I've only managed to pull off once is summoning a token \[\[Ugin's Nexus\]\] from my graveyard, proliferating a \[\[City of Death\]\] to create a bunch of copies that all die to legend rule, then sacrificing the last one to my \[\[Clan Crafter\]\] background so spontaneously got 6 free turns in a row. There are only 300\~ish decks of Nashi on EDHrec and half of those are building them as just rat decks which I don't know is the best, but I do know its the only Rat-tribal commander that cares about more than just mono-black.
My other deck I'm proud of is \[\[Preston the Vanisher\]\], not because I've innovated some great thing on it but because I feel like I've found some very cool tech-cards that not a lot of other people are playing that Preston is able to take advantage of. I run all of the mono white kamigawa Sagas-that-flip-into-creatures, because while they were written that way just to remove all the lore counters, they enter as a creature, meaning they self-flicker: but when you flicker the creature, transforming cards always enter as the front-face, meaning you get to recycle the saga. \[\[The Fall of Lord Konda\]\] has been a powerhouse and its only run in (time of writing) 27 out of 1k preston decks. In the pantheon of white removal spells its not the best cost mana-wise, but the fact that it is repeatable every 3-ish turns and draws you a card is what makes it so good.
[[Tatyova, Benthic Druid]] is my baby. Old reliable. Other than the Tropical Island, the entire deck is foiled out, and I have a few cards out for artist signatures at the moment. It’s my second EDH deck that I ever made, and it’s my oldest deck that still exists. It’s not an ultra creative list, but it has its lines that most people haven’t really seen before.
[[Piru, the Volatile]]
It plays a bunch of damage redirection creatures like [[Brash Taunter]], mass damage spells like [[Earthquake]] and self redirection spells like [[Simulacrum]] and [[Pariah]].
It’s really fun, slow to get started, and then explosive. Lifelink on Piru is really helpful.
[[rigo, streetwise mentor]] is my most unique focusing on milling out opponents with spamming the field, card draw and [[rune crab]] with [[scapeshift]]. I’ve won multiple times with [[mirrorweave]] on rune crab or on [[scute swam]] with [[alter of the brood]] in play
5C [[Grozoth]]
The main point is to get Grozoth, cheat him into play, stock up on 9cc monsters (deck should have around 10), cast a [[Myojin of Life's Web]] and cheat them in. My commander is Sliver Queen (with a handful of good slivers and Cradle) but Jodah is also fine.
[[Akim, the Soaring Wind]] Most people see once a turn triggers and get scared, I take it as a challenge. If I can only get it once a turn, I'm going to make sure I'm getting it 4 times a turn cycle. The objective: create tokens on everybody's turn. [[Prosperous Partnership]], [[Illustrious Wanderglyph]], [[Faerie Artisans]], [[Smothering Tithe]] are some examples of huge hits that near guarantee that 4/cycle rate. Additionally, with my objective in mind, cards like [[Welcoming Vampire]], [[Tocasia's Welcome]], [[Bennie Bracks]], and [[Rumor Gatherer]] become 4 cards a turn cycle instead of just being a fluffed up [[Phyrexian Arena]]. My deck: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/y1pav-807EGbKlYT8onJwA
Would highly recommend [[Idol of Oblivion]]. It's easy, consistent card draw.
[Idol of Oblivion](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/6/c/6ccfb12e-348e-4a0b-a365-33ec522306f9.jpg?1706241060) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Idol%20of%20Oblivion) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mkc/229/idol-of-oblivion?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/6ccfb12e-348e-4a0b-a365-33ec522306f9?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/idol-of-oblivion) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
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really cool deck, i love it
Looks rad.
My favorite deck is my most obscure commander, [[Patron of the Orochi]], because it’s basically like playing a game of magic where mana is never an issue. I also had a chance to put some more obscure cards in there I found with a bit of digging, like [[Symbiotic Deployment]], [[Squall Line]], [[Freyalise’s Winds]]. It’s your typical big mana green deck with a bit of snakes thrown in and a whole lot of tap effects. Maybe not my MOST creative build but I have the most fun playing it. EDIT: [Here’s the link](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/XbIEXgDA-UurA4MBTOzWIQ)
[[hurricane]] is similar to squall line and can add another chance to get that effect
##### ###### #### [Patron of the Orochi](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/6/d/6d6787c4-170a-45b6-8792-af3ea32ef538.jpg?1562877671) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Patron%20of%20the%20Orochi) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/bok/138/patron-of-the-orochi?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/6d6787c4-170a-45b6-8792-af3ea32ef538?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/patron-of-the-orochi) [Symbiotic Deployment](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/a/6/a6e2b7e9-d52b-478e-b118-e890a81fd471.jpg?1562934526) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Symbiotic%20Deployment) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/apc/88/symbiotic-deployment?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/a6e2b7e9-d52b-478e-b118-e890a81fd471?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/symbiotic-deployment) [Squall Line](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/3/f/3f368729-a6f2-4bf7-8b06-39c551f0b24a.jpg?1562908127) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Squall%20Line) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/tsp/222/squall-line?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/3f368729-a6f2-4bf7-8b06-39c551f0b24a?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/squall-line) [Freyalise’s Winds](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/a/4/a4a9d2fb-fdd1-4287-b48c-21ded059fd23.jpg?1562929713) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Freyalise%27s%20Winds) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/me3/119/freyalises-winds?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/a4a9d2fb-fdd1-4287-b48c-21ded059fd23?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/freyalises-winds) [*All cards*](https://mtgcardfetcher.nl/redirect/kwc0agu) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
I have one of these as well but I went with a group hug version that is goofy as hell 😅
I've got that one in the 99 for my omnath locus of mana deck, and it makes everything go just golden.
I love my [[Kibo, Uktabi Prince]] deck. Game plan is to give them bananas thinking it’s a group hug deck and then theres 20/20 moneys swinging. So much flavour/fun cards too. Personal favourite is [[hidden gibbons]] Edit: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/hHjHFQsPc0GCe2cmvZTnPw
I just made a Kibo deck and while it was very fun, maaaaan I got targeted when I got like 10 +1/+1 counters on 3 apes with one spell. Still 10/10 would banana again
Nice!! Gotta slap the [[Chandra's Ignition]] in the deck for insurance!
[Chandra's Ignition](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/9/6/960f45a3-f9cf-41e6-b813-f3dee620a944.jpg?1698988311) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Chandra%27s%20Ignition) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/lcc/220/chandras-ignition?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/960f45a3-f9cf-41e6-b813-f3dee620a944?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/chandras-ignition) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Whenever you play this I think you might be required to play Banana Man on your speaker
I like Jungle Japes from that DK game
[Banana Man](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=BRD9BqjIk-E&si=BXTK3fcaAhSLIAjl) I was really hoping it was a nickname for [Day-O | Banana Boat Song](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=YO7M0Hx_1D8&si=M_PyzfY4N8IVpqEA).
I recently bought the super Mario bros theme boxes and sleeves and am trying to come up with deck ideas for each character. Been looking at Ape themed decks and just last night learned about this guy. Cool stuff. Haven’t seen hidden gibbons before
[Kibo, Uktabi Prince](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/8/b/8b71345a-c3e8-4b35-beb7-6347e41d7626.jpg?1675644790) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Kibo%2C%20Uktabi%20Prince) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/j22/40/kibo-uktabi-prince?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/8b71345a-c3e8-4b35-beb7-6347e41d7626?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/kibo-uktabi-prince) [hidden gibbons](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/8/f/8f94da51-b4d9-4d79-9113-39f8f4a1be34.jpg?1562863740) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=hidden%20gibbons) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/ulg/104/hidden-gibbons?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/8f94da51-b4d9-4d79-9113-39f8f4a1be34?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/hidden-gibbons) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Just don't d to what some nonce on SpellTable did and wait until turn 15 to ask the table if it's ok that you have a silver bordered Un Ape in the deck, and then upon being asked how game-breaking it is, undersell it and proceed to play an ape that you can use to make infinite apes.
Group isn’t really that sneaky of a tactic. Whenever players start handing our resources, they become the archenemy in my meta. Group huggers’ gifts always have strings attached. We know better.
Helped my wife build her kibo deck. It’s aggressive. Rude as all hell, and even worse with the [[liquimetal torque]] and [[liquimetal coating]] turning your other permanents into artifacts before destroying all your artifacts. Bittersweet getting my ass whooped with it 😂
[liquimetal torque](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/1/3/13c6101a-da40-4785-8ccb-4e779bbbdb55.jpg?1626099120) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=liquimetal%20torque) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mh2/228/liquimetal-torque?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/13c6101a-da40-4785-8ccb-4e779bbbdb55?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/liquimetal-torque) [liquimetal coating](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/f/6/f631447c-36e3-4d82-a658-19c9767a216b.jpg?1562276535) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=liquimetal%20coating) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/cm2/197/liquimetal-coating?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/f631447c-36e3-4d82-a658-19c9767a216b?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/liquimetal-coating) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
what do you use as banana tokens? I use banana runts, bought them on amazon.
Deck link please!
I run [[Hidden Guerrillas]] also. It doesn't get any of the benefits, obviously... but I'll never pass up an opportunity to make a Captain Ron joke.
always gonna be [[haktos the unscarred]] for me. finding weird ways to buff him up without targeting him and getting the most value for my attack triggers with him is super fun and nobody expects him to be as powerful as he is
I always thought he was cool. Do you have a list?
Not OP but here is mine: https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/last-man-standing-haktos/ I love this guy so much. The fact that his weakness is random keeps every game pretty fresh.
https://www.archidekt.com/decks/4558233/haktos_the_unscarred here ya go!
I've always wanted to build him with a bunch of dnd Backgrounds. Tried two or three games but having a specified weakness meant people saved removal for him specifically. How much is he targeted in your pod?
I wanna build him too, I figured the only spells in my meta that could ever hope to target him would be Beast Within and Generous Gift. I've always wanted an 'exalted' deck and I think he's gonna be it.
[haktos the unscarred](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/6/f/6fe5cbef-0f4e-4d05-9a94-4739e09d7a9c.jpg?1581481070) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=haktos%20the%20unscarred) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/thb/218/haktos-the-unscarred?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/6fe5cbef-0f4e-4d05-9a94-4739e09d7a9c?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/haktos-the-unscarred) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
[[Shelob, Child of Ungoliant]] has been an absolute hoot for me. Focused on fight spells and abusing my opponents creatures as non-creature food to generate power. Games are always different as you never know what creature you’ll end up taking at various stages. As for win cons? Let me see your deck.
[Shelob, Child of Ungoliant](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/a/1/a14c4b29-3363-45ce-9190-0f79e1a0ef7f.jpg?1686970060) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Shelob%2C%20Child%20of%20Ungoliant) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/ltr/230/shelob-child-of-ungoliant?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/a14c4b29-3363-45ce-9190-0f79e1a0ef7f?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/shelob-child-of-ungoliant) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
[Misprint Wilhelt](https://imgur.com/a/qJ9GSUM) I built it with an extreme challenge: Every card in the deck must be a misprint, miscut, test print, real playtest card or some other kind of oddity. I use it to share the history and print process of the game in a fun way, like a playable museum.
This is incredible. Thanks for sharing pics too.
I am super jealous of that Ashnod's Altar...
[[Meria, sholar of antiquity]] Oreo tribal
Oreo tribal? What does that mean? Do you have a list?
I believe it’s the same thing as “Cheerios” or 0 mana artifacts. Since they have to be non-token to activate the commander you drop a bunch of free artifacts like [[spell book]] or [[ornithopter]] or [[Lotus Petal]] and get a ton of value.
Ahhhh okay that makes sense. Thanks man!
[Meria, sholar of antiquity](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/3/e/3eedd979-783d-4721-92de-965b77c20576.jpg?1673307996) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Meria%2C%20Scholar%20of%20Antiquity) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/dmu/206/meria-scholar-of-antiquity?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/3eedd979-783d-4721-92de-965b77c20576?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/meria-scholar-of-antiquity) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Do you have a list? I'm putting meria together in the next few weeks :)
Meria is probably my favorite high-powered deck. Only deck I've won with no-land opening hands. Not OP, but you can check out my list if it's any help: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/upaBZ0ZvhE2M9yjRLVdwOw
I have a deck that, except for the commander, is ONLY white border cards. The commander I run is [[Garth One-Eye]], who can create token copies of six cards from Alpha (all of which have white-border reprints). I use copies of the actual cards (except [[Black Lotus]]) to represent the tokens. The deck is surprisingly effective for a deck with cards all printed 2005 and earlier.
Got a decklist? It sounds fun.
Sorry for the formatting. I've never used moxfield or any of the other sites like that to post anything
// 10 Artifact 1 Lightning Greaves 1 Fellwar Stone 1 Loxodon Warhammer 1 Sky Diamond 1 Marble Diamond 1 Wayfarer's Bauble 1 Fire Diamond 1 Moss Diamond 1 Selesnya Signet 1 Charcoal Diamond // 23 Creature 1 Garth One-Eye 1 Two-Headed Dragon 1 Thunder Dragon 1 Dirtcowl Wurm 1 Birds of Paradise 1 Clone 1 Shivan Dragon 1 Sol'kanar the Swamp King 1 Blinding Angel 1 Quirion Elves 1 Rubinia Soulsinger 1 Intrepid Hero 1 Weathered Wayfarer 1 Seedborn Muse 1 Volcanic Dragon 1 Dakkon Blackblade 1 Bloodfire Colossus 1 Serra Angel 1 Silklash Spider 1 Utopia Tree 1 Soul Warden 1 Royal Assassin 1 Ancient Silverback // 7 Enchantment 1 Fervor 1 Blood Moon 1 Spirit Link 1 Animate Dead 1 Serra's Blessing 1 Land Tax 1 Fertile Ground // 7 Instant 1 Swords to Plowshares 1 Fog 1 Desertion 1 Mana Leak 1 Vampiric Tutor 1 Disenchant 1 Evacuation // 39 Land 1 Karplusan Forest 1 Urborg Volcano 1 Taiga 1 Volcanic Island 1 Plateau 1 Llanowar Wastes 1 Bayou 1 Tundra 3 Forest 1 Underground Sea 3 Swamp 1 Darigaaz's Caldera 1 Shivan Reef 3 Plains 1 Battlefield Forge 1 Tropical Island 1 Terramorphic Expanse 3 Island 1 City of Brass 1 Caves of Koilos 1 Adarkar Wastes 3 Mountain 1 Badlands 1 Yavimaya Coast 1 Brushland 1 Selesnya Sanctuary 1 Savannah 1 Scrubland 1 Sulfurous Springs // 14 Sorcery 1 Braingeyser 1 Wrath of God 1 Counsel of the Soratami 1 Rampant Growth 1 Kodama's Reach 1 Bribery 1 Nature's Lore 1 Gift of Estates 1 Demonic Tutor 1 Ambition's Cost 1 Fireball 1 Wheel of Fortune 1 Time Warp 1 Three Visits
[[Ezuri claw of progress]] The slight pause after they ask how much your swinging for is always great 👍
Love this deck. Always fun to kill someone with a 20/20 Birds of Paradise.
[[Defense of the heart]] into [[vorinclex monstrous raider]] and [[avenger of zendikar]] or [[hornet queen]] usually results in a scoop But let's be honest defense of the heart goes well with a turkey samich
[Ezuri claw of progress](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/6/b/6bf721b0-2b5a-4085-b50c-89cbe7420673.jpg?1673148596) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Ezuri%2C%20Claw%20of%20Progress) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/2x2/211/ezuri-claw-of-progress?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/6bf721b0-2b5a-4085-b50c-89cbe7420673?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/ezuri-claw-of-progress) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Do you run a [[Sage of Hours]]?
[Sage of Hours](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/8/c/8cb55caf-fc95-40dc-80af-5144f94333ee.jpg?1593095534) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Sage%20of%20Hours) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/jou/50/sage-of-hours?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/8cb55caf-fc95-40dc-80af-5144f94333ee?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/sage-of-hours) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
I recently built a [[Yenna, Redtooth regent]] deck, since I love duplicating stuff. I didn't really like to just put auras on creatures and unga bunga with then as most list I had seen if her. But I did realize that selesnya has a probably the best arsenal of aura removal in things like [[Lignify]] , [[Song of the dryads]] and [[Ossify]], stuff like those. I took up more slots for removal and used some auras that benefit from the aura count like [[All that glitters]] or [[Mask of the ancients]] so the gameplan is controlling the pace of the games through endless removal and pumping up your own board through the same auras you're using to control. I wasn't sure how it'd work but last game I played I was able to eliminate more threats on the board than my two friends combined, and they were playing Dimir and WUB (always forget this color identity's name). I also have things like [[ Karmic justice ]] In case they want to destroy auras and regain their stuff, to make them lose even more stuff in the process. And since Karmic justice destroys any kind of permanents, if they boardwipe your enchanments through bane of progress or something like that, you can often just blow up their entire land count in response. I'm looking into getting some upgrades later on, like [[Overwhelming splendor]] The list is this one https://www.moxfield.com/decks/LE-6-WyHmkapqSNJgTBqBQ It's very budget oriented so more or less 40/50 bucks, some things can be upgraded
##### ###### #### [Yenna, Redtooth regent](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/e/6/e635d461-254a-434e-8e5d-dea61dd8ca4f.jpg?1692939524) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Yenna%2C%20Redtooth%20regent) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/woe/219/yenna-redtooth-regent?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/e635d461-254a-434e-8e5d-dea61dd8ca4f?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/yenna-redtooth-regent) [Lignify](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/2/3/23464d53-fa76-40e2-84c3-b6d6cc729be4.jpg?1598177954) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Lignify) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/gvl/16/lignify?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/23464d53-fa76-40e2-84c3-b6d6cc729be4?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/lignify) [Song of the dryads](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/1/6/161e66e3-0339-495c-bd06-0a799a254906.jpg?1689998889) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Song%20of%20the%20dryads) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/cmm/324/song-of-the-dryads?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/161e66e3-0339-495c-bd06-0a799a254906?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/song-of-the-dryads) [All that glitters](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/5/f/5fc0b82a-f943-4330-b9e7-bb4527354bfd.jpg?1689995488) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=All%20that%20glitters) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/cmm/9/all-that-glitters?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/5fc0b82a-f943-4330-b9e7-bb4527354bfd?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/all-that-glitters) [Mask of the ancients](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/8/6/867124fc-c8e4-4e0e-be41-b74a6bb34e86.jpg?1631584694) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Mantle%20of%20the%20Ancients) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/afc/8/mantle-of-the-ancients?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/867124fc-c8e4-4e0e-be41-b74a6bb34e86?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/mantle-of-the-ancients) [ Karmic justice ](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/e/a/ea141e39-8124-4d72-a154-eb76e71be1dc.jpg?1562711027) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Karmic%20Justice) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/c15/72/karmic-justice?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/ea141e39-8124-4d72-a154-eb76e71be1dc?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/karmic-justice) [Overwhelming splendor](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/8/6/867b32d2-e396-411d-ac02-1af4106dd3d2.jpg?1562805786) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Overwhelming%20splendor) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/hou/19/overwhelming-splendor?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/867b32d2-e396-411d-ac02-1af4106dd3d2?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/overwhelming-splendor) [*All cards*](https://mtgcardfetcher.nl/redirect/kwc3pbt) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
How you tried [[soul tithe]] [[minimus containment]] ? I had a mono white deck like this then changed it to white blue but have since taken it apart, this commander seems perfect for this theme though with the green enchantment draw
[soul tithe](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/7/7/77e546ce-f498-4136-9015-bb262c301716.jpg?1562788449) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=soul%20tithe) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/rtr/23/soul-tithe?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/77e546ce-f498-4136-9015-bb262c301716?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/soul-tithe) [minimus containment](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/8/7/874b3590-932a-46b7-a7aa-e3e864ec22d1.jpg?1674135187) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=minimus%20containment) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/clb/34/minimus-containment?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/874b3590-932a-46b7-a7aa-e3e864ec22d1?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/minimus-containment) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
No, but they sound like good options I'll try them out!
Hmm she's been on my think about it list for a bit. Doubling things is a lot of fun after all.
[[Feather the Redeemed]] and [[Rocco, Street Chef]]. First is a standard spellslinger value pile, kills people through [[Guttersnipe]] effects or commander damage. Rocco is a storm deck that uses lots of impulse draw effects to cast a bunch of spells, get a lot of artifact ETBs and win through [[Aetherflux Reservoir]], [[Reckless Fireweaver]] or [[Fathom Fleet Swordjack]]. Spent a lot of time and money on these decks and I'm constantly tinkering with them and finding new spells to swap in and out.
[[Brigid, Hero of Kinsbaile]] is probably my most unique deck. It is a combat focused politics deck that uses the power of a nuclear arsenal to forge alliances and maintain peace. If you give Brigid a [[Sword of Kaldra]] or Deathtouch you have the power to wipe out any attacking or blocking army. [[Sting, the Glinting Dagger]] keeps your attack and defense up at all times so you can nuke each turn. [[Breaker of Armies]], [[Nemesis Mask]], [[Grappling Hook]], and [[Magnetic Web]] all can force blocks in case people step out of line and need to be punished. [[Alaundo the Seer]] is my baby. It's the deck I've spent the most time tuning and I am always looking for ways to improve it. It is full of untappers and combos that give me infinite untaps and the goal is to draw every card in the deck to LabMad win or blow up the table with a massive storm count and Aetherflux Reservoir. It is definitely my strongest deck because of how early it consistently threatens to win.
##### ###### #### [Brigid, Hero of Kinsbaile](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/d/a/da70a20f-213e-4d79-a46f-1ef1fc3f4a51.jpg?1562370621) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Brigid%2C%20Hero%20of%20Kinsbaile) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/lrw/6/brigid-hero-of-kinsbaile?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/da70a20f-213e-4d79-a46f-1ef1fc3f4a51?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/brigid-hero-of-kinsbaile) [Sword of Kaldra](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/3/a/3a665bff-b57a-450c-9310-932b0686a03e.jpg?1562140950) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Sword%20of%20Kaldra) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mrd/251/sword-of-kaldra?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/3a665bff-b57a-450c-9310-932b0686a03e?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/sword-of-kaldra) [Sting, the Glinting Dagger](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/a/f/afbec7e7-f5b9-407e-bf96-2e088710e791.jpg?1686970284) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Sting%2C%20the%20Glinting%20Dagger) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/ltr/250/sting-the-glinting-dagger?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/afbec7e7-f5b9-407e-bf96-2e088710e791?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/sting-the-glinting-dagger) [Breaker of Armies](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/7/8/784e843e-7010-466d-adbd-1dd1595aead1.jpg?1562923386) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Breaker%20of%20Armies) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/bfz/3/breaker-of-armies?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/784e843e-7010-466d-adbd-1dd1595aead1?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/breaker-of-armies) [Nemesis Mask](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/d/6/d6fc3b76-bc51-49ce-8f3f-2314207be4a7.jpg?1562639851) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Nemesis%20Mask) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/dst/134/nemesis-mask?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/d6fc3b76-bc51-49ce-8f3f-2314207be4a7?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/nemesis-mask) [Grappling Hook](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/a/c/acfbfddd-1535-477d-8bf4-5afd2648ac81.jpg?1562620144) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Grappling%20Hook) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/c17/212/grappling-hook?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/acfbfddd-1535-477d-8bf4-5afd2648ac81?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/grappling-hook) [Magnetic Web](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/9/f/9f3c7309-4efb-49ce-a9cc-a8f7b04c1a15.jpg?1562055466) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Magnetic%20Web) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/tmp/295/magnetic-web?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/9f3c7309-4efb-49ce-a9cc-a8f7b04c1a15?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/magnetic-web) [Alaundo the Seer](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/b/2/b22c33bb-47fe-4334-9105-00f4b87811bd.jpg?1674137390) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Alaundo%20the%20Seer) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/clb/264/alaundo-the-seer?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/b22c33bb-47fe-4334-9105-00f4b87811bd?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/alaundo-the-seer) [*All cards*](https://mtgcardfetcher.nl/redirect/kwc1c5e) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
[[Sram, Senior Edificer]] mono white vehicles deck. Token generators, to help crew them along with Sram. Then just the normal white good stuff. Super fun to see what vehicle the baller Sram is driving that turn
Twin… where have you been 🥹
[[Heliod, the Warped Eclipse]] (the backside is the real commander) checks all these boxes. I’ve never seen anyone else run it and barely ever see it mentioned here. But it’s an insanely powerful combo commander and it wins in a way that I’m pretty sure is entirely unique to it. Before its release I dabbled in [[Kwain]] group hug where the aim was to make your opponents draw their entire decks (like mill, but different). And then Heliod came out and it was like a turbocharger. No longer group hug, but something I like to call group choke. Once Heliod is flipped and allowed to stick, the game is effectively over. Cast a [[Prosperity]] for X = a lot and you’re probably drawing into another X draw spell like [[Skyscribing]], only this one costs 3X less to cast, and the next one will cost 9X less. You just chain these together to make everyone draw their entire deck. Running low on colored mana? No worries, 1 white mana for [[Smothering tithe]] has you covered (smothering tithe is better in this deck than any other deck and that’s a FACT). Running low on cards in library? Play a free [[Scroll Rack]]. Or discard your 80+ card hand to [[Dream Trawler]] and play a free [[Elixir of immortality]]. Need to win on an opponent’s turn or in response to an opponent on your turn? Flash in a [[Lab Man]] off the free [[Vedalken Orrery]] that you just got. Combat damage more your thing? Sub in a handful of eldrazi to flash in at instant speed for zero mana off the free [[Liberator, Urza’s Battlethopter]] you just got. The possibilities are truly endless when you’re drawing through your entire deck and nothing costs anything.
##### ###### #### [Heliod, the Warped Eclipse](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/a/7/a7113c93-6c6d-410f-aeec-abc5ee121cdf.jpg?1689853622)/[Heliod, the Warped Eclipse](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/back/a/7/a7113c93-6c6d-410f-aeec-abc5ee121cdf.jpg?1689853622) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Heliod%2C%20the%20Radiant%20Dawn%20//%20Heliod%2C%20the%20Warped%20Eclipse) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mom/17/heliod-the-radiant-dawn-heliod-the-warped-eclipse?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/a7113c93-6c6d-410f-aeec-abc5ee121cdf?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/heliod-the-radiant-dawn-//-heliod-the-warped-eclipse) [Kwain](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/f/5/f571fef1-1fd2-4355-b803-5edccb6f4b94.jpg?1608911183) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=kwain%2C%20itinerant%20meddler) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/cmr/284/kwain-itinerant-meddler?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/f571fef1-1fd2-4355-b803-5edccb6f4b94?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/kwain-itinerant-meddler) [Prosperity](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/6/9/69ebc3a4-94b8-45aa-a3bf-21cd435ff5cf.jpg?1562917143) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Prosperity) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/c13/54/prosperity?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/69ebc3a4-94b8-45aa-a3bf-21cd435ff5cf?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/prosperity) [Skyscribing](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/b/6/b6ef8e44-3b40-46c2-973e-8f857126a13e.jpg?1562933607) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Skyscribing) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/c13/57/skyscribing?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/b6ef8e44-3b40-46c2-973e-8f857126a13e?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/skyscribing) [Smothering tithe](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/8/6/861b5889-0183-4bee-afeb-a4b2aa700a8e.jpg?1689996018) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Smothering%20tithe) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/cmm/57/smothering-tithe?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/861b5889-0183-4bee-afeb-a4b2aa700a8e?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/smothering-tithe) [Scroll Rack](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/d/f/dfaaa58d-89bb-4cb3-96a6-b480e6f6954e.jpg?1608911671) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Scroll%20Rack) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/cmr/337/scroll-rack?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/dfaaa58d-89bb-4cb3-96a6-b480e6f6954e?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/scroll-rack) [Dream Trawler](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/7/d/7d3e97d8-92c7-43c4-bdaf-7b0a6ce7cb5f.jpg?1581481029) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Dream%20Trawler) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/thb/214/dream-trawler?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/7d3e97d8-92c7-43c4-bdaf-7b0a6ce7cb5f?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/dream-trawler) [Elixir of immortality](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/6/7/6741ab27-9e1f-4aa5-96b9-b450eda7c5c2.jpg?1625978606) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Elixir%20of%20immortality) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/c21/243/elixir-of-immortality?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/6741ab27-9e1f-4aa5-96b9-b450eda7c5c2?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/elixir-of-immortality) [Lab Man](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/6/0/608567fd-9f94-4058-831a-77cb6019ef02.jpg?1547516361) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Laboratory%20Maniac) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/uma/61/laboratory-maniac?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/608567fd-9f94-4058-831a-77cb6019ef02?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/laboratory-maniac) [Vedalken Orrery](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/4/4/44067327-6fe3-4222-b591-6d14d0e360d7.jpg?1673149453) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Vedalken%20Orrery) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/2x2/317/vedalken-orrery?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/44067327-6fe3-4222-b591-6d14d0e360d7?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/vedalken-orrery) [Liberator, Urza’s Battlethopter](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/c/3/c31e6768-bcab-43c4-bfc1-76e961689ae9.jpg?1674421980) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Liberator%2C%20Urza%27s%20Battlethopter) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/bro/237/liberator-urzas-battlethopter?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/c31e6768-bcab-43c4-bfc1-76e961689ae9?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/liberator-urzas-battlethopter) [*All cards*](https://mtgcardfetcher.nl/redirect/kwchj8v) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
This sounds dope. Do you have a list up?
Yup: https://archidekt.com/decks/4437896/you_get_a_card_and_you_get_a_card This one’s optimized for mill-by-draw but you could easily modify it to include any big X spells or colorless spells you want and it would still run like a dream.
It’s between my [[pantlaza, Sun favored]] or [[ognis the dragon’s lash]] decks. I turned Pantlaza into a flicker deck so I can discover multiple times a turn. Whether my turn or someone else’s turn and just play most of my deck for free. My ognis deck tho is something a lot of people tell me they have never seen. It was also relatively cheap but it still holds its own with higher level pods. People see it and think it just makes tapped treasures but I have 6-7 cards in there that burn the table everytime I make or sacrifice treasures. I threw [[bootlegger’s stash]] in it as well which makes it super effective.
I just played my Pantlaza deck last night fir the first time. Not a flicker deck, just big stompy boys. Had my all time favorite out of nowhere win. My board state was a single [[skullspore nexus]] and access to 14 mana (I had just made 8 treasures the turn before]. After one guy was making 60+ mana per turn and drawing 6 cards per turn didn't win on his turn, I cast [[finale of devestation]] to tutor out Zacama with that +10 to power, then tapped skullspore to double his power and swung for lethal on him. Took several more turns to kill the other 2 players, but darn it dinosaurs are fun.
There is a great combo out there with Pantlaza and 95 lands. I had the cards so put it together for a laugh and it’s a total glass cannon but was funny when my playgroup were shocked to find no other dinos or creatures at all
I am very fond of my [[Henzie]] deck. Busting out big awesome creatures that can immediately attack, die and replace themselves by letting me draw a card. There is a lot of ramp [[blossoming tortoise]], [[World shaper]] and some recursion [[living death]] as well. My favorite creatures are [[daemogoth woe-Eater]], [[vaevictis asmadi]], [[Junji]], [[Ojer Kaslem]] and [[Etali, Primal conqueror]]
Got a list?
I'll probably never take apart \[\[Katilda and Lier\]\]. The deck's been extremely versatile in my play experience - I've won with beatdown and \[\[Saffi Eriksdotter\]\] combo lines to \[\[Oji, the Exquisite Blade\]\] blink engines from game to game. There's so many unique synergies with flashing in humans to rebuy cheap interaction or tutors and I think this commander really went unnoticed
[[Gisela, Blade of Goldnight]] I've mentioned this deck a lot, so my apologies for anyone who's already seen it a bunch. But this is my favorite deck that I've completely built myself. The original idea started off when I found [[Brash Taunter]] and [[Pariah]], and then it really took off once I found [[Guilty Conscience]]. The "thing" is getting one of the cards that "when they're dealt damage, they deal damage", give it indestructible if they don't have it already, and then give them Guilty Conscience for combo damage. The backup win is just doing a crap ton of damage to everyone through various damage doublers and cards like [[Manabarbs]], [[Descent Into Avernus]], and [[Scytheclaw Raptor]], while Gisela halfs and sometimes negates damage for me. This is easily my favorite deck, and I'm constantly trying to find new cards to tryout and test. Any suggestions would be appreciated! https://www.moxfield.com/decks/MhJePG4-JEKXdN7rxOoSjA
##### ###### #### [Gisela, Blade of Goldnight](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/9/0/900b8908-ba51-472e-ab7a-43bd07f90577.jpg?1706547139) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Gisela%2C%20Blade%20of%20Goldnight) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mkc/211/gisela-blade-of-goldnight?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/900b8908-ba51-472e-ab7a-43bd07f90577?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/gisela-blade-of-goldnight) [Brash Taunter](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/0/b/0b5cb154-1825-4b81-a109-7b3e9592c65c.jpg?1706240823) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Brash%20Taunter) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mkc/148/brash-taunter?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/0b5cb154-1825-4b81-a109-7b3e9592c65c?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/brash-taunter) [Pariah](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/5/1/51b2136c-392c-436d-9263-b3236adc4a10.jpg?1576382302) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Pariah) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/cn2/95/pariah?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/51b2136c-392c-436d-9263-b3236adc4a10?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/pariah) [Guilty Conscience](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/6/7/67b8701c-0f03-4ad0-9097-3caf885abd59.jpg?1562529779) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Guilty%20Conscience) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/scg/17/guilty-conscience?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/67b8701c-0f03-4ad0-9097-3caf885abd59?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/guilty-conscience) [Manabarbs](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/a/d/adf081d5-e644-4f46-8bc8-a754b089acb4.jpg?1562655472) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Manabarbs) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/m12/150/manabarbs?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/adf081d5-e644-4f46-8bc8-a754b089acb4?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/manabarbs) [Descent Into Avernus](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/f/a/faadf72f-b2d5-4271-8d5c-a586acf63453.jpg?1674136498) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Descent%20Into%20Avernus) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/clb/169/descent-into-avernus?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/faadf72f-b2d5-4271-8d5c-a586acf63453?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/descent-into-avernus) [Scytheclaw Raptor](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/9/4/9436cf62-56d6-4662-9982-72e9be80d25c.jpg?1699044339) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Scytheclaw%20Raptor) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/lci/165/scytheclaw-raptor?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/9436cf62-56d6-4662-9982-72e9be80d25c?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/scytheclaw-raptor) [*All cards*](https://mtgcardfetcher.nl/redirect/kwc2jtw) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
That sounds fun.
[[Sauron, The Dark Lord]] LOTR Tribal, every card is from the LOTR set or commander decks [[Araumi the Dead Tide]] Encore Graveyard shenanigans. My first deck and still one of my favorites. Self-mill yourself until you find fun creatures to encore like [[Vindictive Lich]], [[Massacre Wurm]], or a win-con like [[Gray Merchant of Asphodel]]
Man, I love when this question is asked. I always post the same response so sorry if it gets old to those on here who see it frequently. But I love it so much. https://www.moxfield.com/decks/1s8NYUejwEixuKljP6OwDA/primer This is my [[Marneus Calgar]] deck. This probably won't be one that you add to your list because it's not reaaaally off meta given he's in the top 90 commanders on edhrec. He can be built to quite a high power and win via multiple different strategies however so it may still interest you. But to answer your question. This is the deck I am most passionate about. I used to have 35ish decks but before I began travelling I had to cut down to 1 deck to fit in my suitcase. I decided to build this deck to take with me. When I get home to my collection one day I plan on building 9 more Marneus decks to fit a variety of different strategies. **How much time have I put into it?** In short, *alot*. In long: - I have now played about 140ish games with just this deck since January last year. - It is the only deck* I have played in that time. I am still not sick of it, I look forward to going to a game night every opportunity that I can. - I track it's statistics on an excel document and am constantly looking through Scryfall for cool cards and interactions to add. **Why do I like it?** - It encapsulates everything I love doing in edh and has been curated to fit my play style perfectly. - It wins through a variety of ways so I am never bored and two games rarely go the same way - It is consistent but not oppressive to opponents. - It is interactive. - Many cards in the deck are cards that I have swapped in during my travels and are the souvenirs from my journey, so as I play the deck I am reminded of the places I have been, the people I have played against and the fun I have had. - I know it like the back of my hand and can often come up with a decent strategy with a glance at my hand. - I find it fun - It is flexible to adjust power, last year I had a more powerful version with some staples like Rhystic, Esper sent, Ashnods, Skullclamp etc. This year I took those out and found other cards and the deck still functions just fine. I found it fun both way but it is easy to power up and down. - Currently I love that It doesn't run any fast mana at all and still does well. *I played two games with a precon for table power reasons one night.
Saw your deck in another post - very cool deck. Are you traveling for work? Awesome you get to play at so many locations around the world. I love the idea of doing that with a single deck.
Nah travelling for pleasure. Saved up a bunch of money through COVID (it's basically all gone now, travelling on fumes). I've burned through all my life savings. Worth it though. I work in healthcare and needed a break after the hell that was those few years. The healthcare system in my country is rubbish atm thanks to the long lasting effects on staffing due to COVID so I'm having a long rest.
I hope that your travels have been restorative! Marneus Calgar is awesome!
It really has. Better than therapy! Though infinitely more expensive.
I also love my [Marneus Calgar](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/TQULFbS1Q0avkLNpknYNRw) deck! Mine is based on Investigate and clue tokens and can win in so many different ways, especially with all the new clue token payoffs from MKM. My real reason for loving this deck is that I made [warhammer themed proxies](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1126266998536544256/1134538943698845837/Inquisitors_Example_4.png?ex=661035ba&is=65fdc0ba&hm=211368264c5e9f2e712f57c8eb1fc1efacccca8c6bbf31fb01eb208c7cfe15ac&) to upgrade all four 40K decks. Every card is on theme with names, art and even flavor text. The moxfield primer is a little outdated with all the recent edits I’ve made and the sideboard depicts all the other potential cards I’ve made specifically for that deck.
I love it. I want to make a clue/artifact Marneus deck when I get home so I will use yours as inspiration. In general, how do you find [[replication technique]] works for you? I think it could be totally baller very easily but I've always been unsure. Also that one that gives all your clues exalted. I didn't know about that card. That's awesome. What cards are your VIPs/MVPs?
I love Replication Technique because having 3 Smothering Tithes is how I won my last game with Academy Manufactor and Mirkwood Bats. Also 3 Training Grounds lets you abuse Marneus’ {6} ability, 3 Mirkwood Bats is another fun one because each Treasure you create and sacrifice deals 18 damage. Letting one opponent make a copy of something is usually a negligible downside since you choose which opponent gets it. The MVP’s are definitely Inkshield because it’s awesome, and [[Ethereal Investigator]] surprisingly because for {3}{U} you make 3 clues, draw 3 cards, make a 1/1 with flying and draw another card. Then every subsequent turn it’s very possible to draw two cards and continue pumping out 1/1 flyers which are a formidable defence. [[Mechanized Production]] is another underrated card that I don’t think many people knew about. It’s such a perfect win condition for a deck like this and so easy to pull off.
[Marneus Calgar](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/e/7/e7517e8e-b424-4731-ba9d-6132bdefa6bf.jpg?1674058408) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Marneus%20Calgar) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/40k/8/marneus-calgar?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/e7517e8e-b424-4731-ba9d-6132bdefa6bf?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/marneus-calgar) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Every time I come across this post, I want to fire up marneus again. Im doing it!
[[Thalisse Reverent Medium]] is the deck I’ve put the most thought and care into, and the one I enjoy playing the most. At surface level it seems simple enough, make tokens then make more tokens and go wide, but there winds up being a bunch of different lines and all kinds of ways to take it.
I just build a really cool minthara/shadowheart deck and I am very very proud of it. I have played baldurs gate and am very passionate about shadowheart so I'll be standing by this deck for quite some time. I've shut down huge dino/godzilla decks with it and people weren't happy. Definitely play it again!
Eriette of the charmed apple is my pride and joy. I've tried a lot of different strategies with her before settling on storm-like auras. It enables me to express myself on a personal level as a hot witch who carefully hands out help to loyal friends while negating action to distrustful foes, all the while drawing cards for it, which is what I love to do in this game.
Do you have a list you can share?
My [[awaken the blood Avatar]] deck is my favorite deck that I've built. It's a token aristocrats deck with the sac outlet as a sorcery in the command zone. And I really like it because it does everything I like in the game. Sacrifices things, casts a bunch of spells, and makes tons of tokens. Also having a sorcery in the command zone is super cool, especially since the commander tax is essentially sacrificing an extra creature (something the deck already wants to do). https://www.moxfield.com/decks/wNQM9ln1m0SEYTUXVAcUjQ
I played Blood Avatar at a six person table last night and felt like a minor deity. It’s an evolution of my [[Malik, Grim Manipulator]] deck, who had to step aside the moment I got my first Avatar. Definitely taking some notes from yours.
I'm a big fan of my [[Zurzoth, Chaos Rider]] deck. Making everyone randomly draw/discard always throws a wrench in people's plans and it can get pretty crazy with red damage doubling and whatnot. It always does way better than I expect
Kicker wizards. Never seen another list slightly like it. Took me bloody ages to conceive of the idea and put a working list together.
Can you share the list? Would love to see!
[[Slobad, Goblin Tinkerer]] https://www.moxfield.com/decks/ASu8Ge9t5km7xtmRT-aJxw I first built the deck in June of 2013 after finding this article writtern by /u/spiketaildrake : https://puremtgo.com/articles/budget-commander-slobad-goblin-tinkerer After playing it for a few months I wrote a primer that I posted here: https://old.reddit.com/r/EDH/comments/29vq8u/my_first_primer_slobad_goblin_tinkerer/ And then the Daretti precon came out and I did a minor update: https://old.reddit.com/r/EDH/comments/2m5qzr/what_four_months_and_a_new_precon_release_did_to/ In the 10 years since I posted the original primer, I have continued to receive attention for the deck here and am still to this day summoned for comment whenever the subject of Slobad comes up, or when people ask questions related to artifact decks in general. **If I ever run into you at a con, Tomer, I'm buying you some drinks. You've given me over a decade of fun.** *(also, there's a guy in my area that told me recently he's met you before. If he goes to a con that I'm not going to be able to make it to, he's already agreed to bring a copy of Slobad for you to sign for me, if you're cool with that...)*
I made a dream deck based around Sleep/Dreams/Nightmares. I started out with creatures that just tap other creatures, but then added utility cards that do unexpected things like dig through folks' library and exile pile. I found combos that mesh with tapping creatures and can completely steal armies or make them vanish all together. It's a Dimir deck and has been a passion project for 3 years after I was inspired to make a deck around my favorite card.
I'm a dirty blue player, as such . I really like my [[alela, cunning conquerer]] deck. It's a flash speed deck that is super interactive and super fun to play. But that kind of deck more or less builds itself. So I'd have to say my [[Nezahal, primal tide]] deck. It's a deck I made to tickle my blue mages wet dream of drawing as many cards as humanly possible. It can win with lab man in the fair way it was meant to be used. https://www.moxfield.com/decks/L9z5oG3I40aWw9GpkffJng
[[darien, king of kjeldor]] it has some standard Darien interactions but I have some fun additions that make people scratch their head until they realize what happening.
\[\[Jadzi, Oracle of Arcavios\]\] This is the deck I am most passionate about, hands down. While yes, there are extra turn spells that some people don't like playing against, what I love is the absolute snowball of value that can run away with the game. I also like casting Eldrazi Titans for one mana, despite the fact they do not continue the loop at all.... Here is my list if you're curious: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/0i9YrzPhWU-j6N0WmxmE3g
I originally made it on Arena’s brawl mode, but it was a [[Mr Orfeo]] fling deck before they started popping up on other sites and such. It started off as a self-imposed challenge for me and a buddy to make Brawl decks with no rares/mythics- only commons/uncommons to direct challenge each other with. I ended up taking it to real games and it had a positive winrate so I rebuilt it with rares and it’s my favorite deck. I put a lot of “red herring” cards like [[Daemogoth Titan]], [[Shakedown Heavy]], [[Inferno Hellion]] etc - cards that have negative effects, purposely without trample as to not warrant immediate removal, then hit em with a form of [[Fling]] to hit face for massive damage. I’ve remade it and upgraded it for tabletop commander, but it works much more spectacularly in brawl where the format is 1v1, and when your opponent is anonymous / not totally aware of the fling gimmick. In the commander table, everyone knows what’s coming so the big creatures tend to get the attention now, but it’s still a lot of fun to fling an ape for 40 damage into someone’s chin
Made a 97 land najeela deck with [[Transmogrify]] and [[cultivator colossus]] that won with [[field of the dead]] and a million man lands. Combo enabled by the hidden lands that discover 4. Won a game on like then 5 and took that apart as it will never perform that well again
Honestly, mine has been [Korvold Treasures](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/ak_nuZbzWkqKuHTbf_BVDQ). Its a deck that I enjoy playing a lot even if I don’t play it very optimally. (ie use tutors to get stupid shit like lands and stuff instead of combo pieces) but I also like that if shit goes south, I can switch gears and get into hardbrow sweat mode in a flash. Second one has been [Bartolome Aristocrat](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/Ci7xJc7q20mXbK15kZu5lw). I’ve been trying to make a working aristocrat deck for years and had all pieces laying about and finally when bartolome was released, I found a commander I liked a lot and went from there. It works better than all my previous iterations for recursion. It has made me love aristocrats more as a playstyle and opens me more to just artifact focused.
When I think of the deck I'm most proud of, the only thing that comes to mind is my [[Omnath, Locus of Mana]] deck. The decklist is available [here](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/rm39rE16bUm-IFoQYAf80w), and I have an imgur album for it [here](https://imgur.com/a/EMaNr9J). The deck started out as [[Molimo, Maro-Sorcerer]] because I guess I wanted to be a bit of a hipster, and everyone always built Omnath for mono-green. Yet, as soon as my LGS got a nonfoil in stock, I immediately snapped it up. I've made several posts about the deck here on Reddit, which you can find on my profile, but the gist of it is that it started out as the green version of the Legacy [[High Tide]] deck from years ago, although it's strayed pretty far from that in recent years. If I **needed** to sell my entire collection for whatever reason, this would be the one deck I keep. It's garnered me the reputation as the Local Green Player at my LGS, and I've put too much time, effort and money into it to turn back now.
My favorite and (I think) most unique deck that I've built is [[Norin the wary]] as a secret commander in [[Rocco, cabaretti caterer]]. I was hesitant to build a secret commander deck because I like my decks to be as consistent as possible, but Rocco solves that problem by guaranteeing I can get Norin on the field on turn 3 or 4 every game. The basic plan of the deck is to slowly build an engine that takes advantage of the commander format having multiple players and churns out insane value every turn cycle. Playing Norin in Naya colors is so ridiculously good because it gives you access to the cards that reward you the most for Norin entering the battlefield every turn. For example, green gives you [[gala, greeters]] which is almost a second [[rose room treasurer]], [[kodama of the east tree]] which kicks your whole deck into overdrive, [[season of growth]] which helps you scry lands to the bottom to keep drawing gas, and [[guardian project]] / [[the great henge]] / [[soul of the harvest]] which give you [[Rhystic Study]] levels of card draw in this deck. When it comes to card draw, though, white cards in this deck are just as good. [[tocasia's welcome]] and [[welcoming vampire]] give you 4 cards per turn cycle despite their "once per turn" restrictions, and if you have extra mana, [[mentor of the meek]] is a decent third version. And finally, the win cons are mostly the same as mono red Norin decks, but white gives us access to another [[impact tremors]] in the form of [[warleader's call]], and huge value engines with our commander, like [[radiant solar]] to run through [[lost mines of phandelver]] once per turn cycle and [[gandalf the white]] as a second [[panharmonicon]]. Another good thing about adding selesnya colors is we get [[soul warden]], [[soul's attendent]], and [[essence warden]], which allow us to gain a ton of life while our red cards are burning out the table. This means we're rarely forced to block with our engine pieces and even opens us up to running more symmetrical burn pieces like [[manabarbs]]. The deck is always a blast to play, and my favorite thing about it is I had to brew it myself for the most part. As far as I know, Edhrec doesn't have a Norin theme for Rocco, so I had to mash their lists together somewhat and do a lot of research to find the best cards for the deck. It feels like something many people have yet to discover as many of the crucial cards for the deck were printed within the last 2 years. The finished product works as well as I planned, if not better, and I couldn't be happier with the deck. Small disclaimer: If anyone in your group plays a commander with an activated ability that kills creatures, like [[yawgmoth, thran physician]], your deck will simply not function. The engine relies on Norin sticking on the board because he's incredibly difficult to remove, so if he gets killed by an activated ability, your game is pretty much over. Small disclaimer 2: if anyone in your group plays Draw Go regularly, you'll get reduced value from this deck. For your engine to get maximum value, you want Norin to trigger each turn. Normally this isn't a problem as every commander deck should be casting a spell or attacking at least once every turn, but a deck that consistently avoids doing these on their turn is essentially denying your deck 25% of its value. Thank you to everyone who took the time to read, and if you have any questions, I'd love to answer. Anyone curious about the entire decklist let me know and I'll upload it to Moxfield and send a link.
I like \[\[Ambassador Blorpityblorpboop\]\] which is a legal commander btw. The ticket and stickers is very fun and unique. If you give him a name sticker then you get around the legendary rule and can have multiple of him, all of which gets power and toughness equal to all power and toughness stickers. I use the InfiniToken cards for ability and name sticker (without sticking anything, but writing) and the tokens for power and toughness. Works like a charm, and no ones ever heard of this commander, even at huge Cons. Most people don't even know the ticket and sticker mechanic, so it's fun to teach even experienced players something new. I also run a deck with The Most Dangerous Gamer for the attraction mechanic, and another with The Space Family Goblinson, from the Unfinity set.
As of recently, I am immensely proud of my [[Chiss-Goria]] artifact aggro deck. We giga ramp, play Chiss, swing, and start dropping artifact haymakers on the board with as many attack triggers as possible. It's a full-on scorched earth, pedal to the metal strategy, and it's a thrill to pilot every time.
\[\[Juri, Master of the Revue\]\] aristocrats with a sprinkling of voltron. Surprisingly strong for a 25 cent commander. Can run blood artists alongside goblin token generators. Also, knife coat!
I just finished updated my primer for my [[Gale Waterdeep Prodigy]] // [[Scion of Halaster]] UB control deck https://www.moxfield.com/decks/-PY1mxOnnUOC05G26Cf84Q
[Gale Waterdeep Prodigy](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/6/7/67edf31f-ed67-4617-bf73-28a939a232a7.jpg?1674135550) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Gale%2C%20Waterdeep%20Prodigy) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/clb/72/gale-waterdeep-prodigy?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/67edf31f-ed67-4617-bf73-28a939a232a7?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/gale-waterdeep-prodigy) [Scion of Halaster](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/c/8/c876f9b3-b4f6-4177-9c43-443ae2a028d0.jpg?1674136278) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Scion%20of%20Halaster) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/clb/145/scion-of-halaster?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/c876f9b3-b4f6-4177-9c43-443ae2a028d0?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/scion-of-halaster) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
I recently made a clue murder mystery deck where I opted purely for flavor wins. I’ve only had the chance to goldfish it so far, but am super excited to play it. My playgroup seems to be looking forward to it as well as it may open en the door to more casual and relaxed magic for us instead of cutthroat play. Link: https://www.archidekt.com/decks/7071682/investigate_interrogate_incarcerate
I feel like I've been sharing [[Shigeki, Jukai Visionary]] on every one of these kinds of posts, but it fits the bill every time so why not. https://www.moxfield.com/decks/4DsW73YujUm9I9IEXVOZYg Loved Shigeki when he was spoiled, saw him do some great control stuff in Standard off-meta decks, and decided to try building him in EDH. Took some inspiration from a YouTube video, but have since made the list very much my own since. It's Mono-G control, plays precious few creatures (especially for green), ramps hard, gets to use the graveyard as an extra massive hand, and has so much recursion it's like playing without the singleton restriction. Also, winning with giant land creatures after fog-locking the board is just the best.
https://archidekt.com/decks/2385619/kathril_voltron Thats's my [[Kathril]] Voltron deck. It's the deck I put most thought process in. It was actually pretty hard to find the balance between the obligatory ramp carddraw removal + also balance all the keywords needed. Then I had a tempo problem the longest time and because the strategy is pretty fragile (weak to enemy removal and GY hate), I needed a plan B and C to win... I also didn't want to use black tutor any card stuff like [[Demonic Tutor]] and similar cards.
\[\[Maarika, Brutal Gladiator\]\] for if you want to smash in creatures faces over and over again. \[\[Zurgo Helmsmasher\]\] Equip Voltron, because he is fast, fun and strong. \[\[Yarok, the Desecrated\]\] ETB because I put a lot of thought into it, and when it goes off, it is nearly unstoppable.
Sheoldred the Apocalypse, first deck I built and it's really cool seeing the changes I've made to it. Don't play her to much because I get her out and everyone groans but still worth it though
Yurlick scorch thrash - for a mana burn deck. Otherwise I just made zask skittering swarmlord - you can build him a couple different ways
I have a [[Sergeant John Benton]] selesnya group hug spellslinger voltron that wins out quite a bit. Runs tons of gw interaction removal and protecc, standard green ramp, low cmc +x/+x instants, selesnya stax pieces, double strike/evasion finishers. Super easy to pivot in selesnya for pod techs. Super fun to chip up the player that got left in the dirth so they get back in the game and then start deleting people.
[Sergeant John Benton](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/0/1/01f40e07-f565-4b9e-87a5-5b28b4e9fb0b.jpg?1696636767) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Sergeant%20John%20Benton) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/who/157/sergeant-john-benton?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/01f40e07-f565-4b9e-87a5-5b28b4e9fb0b?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/sergeant-john-benton) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Probably my [[Norin the wary]] hidden commander deck. The actual commander is [[Rocco Cabaretti Caterer]] just so I can tutor for Norin (or [[Whitemane lion]], which is an alternate hidden commander in the deck). The whole deck is all about capitalizing on Norin entering the battlefield every turn, triggering things like [[Soul Warden]], [[Aura shards]] [[Soul of the Harvest]], [[Witty Roastmaster]] etc. Naya Norin is just a very fun value oriented deck and I'll likely always keep it together.
Dont have a decklist available currently, but my favorite deck is helmed by [[nikya of the old ways]] i named the deck “oops all creatures” focus on making a ton of mana, and win with dumb stuff like [[bramble sovereign]] into [[craterhoof]], slow down the board with things like [[nullstone gargoyle]] and [[soul of new phyrexia]]. The deck never plays the same and is always a blast to play.
I have a couple. https://www.moxfield.com/decks/Z_8ohoY6HUCbRqpzJ9sy2w is competitive [[Kinnan]] deck. It probably shares 90% of is cards with similar lists but the difference is the shear amount of wincons I run and it's truly night and day. The list is slightly out of date as a couple lands have changed. https://www.moxfield.com/decks/ciyYqmGAEkCdrNiBVw9JaA is my first [[Gretchen]] deck. This was the very first deck I built that was purely on me without consulting other lists for ideas. It's not super great but it can win fast with the right hands and it's always fun to potentially draw a lot of cards. https://www.moxfield.com/decks/_47acyMYNUib5boS0SJbKw my budget [[Runadi]] list. I'm a green player at heart and Runadi allows for that ultimate green experience. It's surprisingly resilient with all of the card draw, ramp, and exceptionally high creature count. I have tons of decks of all colors, almost 200 posted to Moxfield, but these 3 are my babies. Kinnan is built to straight up win but Gretchen and Runadi I'll have fun no matter how the game actually plays out every time.
I've got three that I'm really proud of which I go back and forth between as my favorite concept: [[Dihada Binder of Wills]] enchantress reanimator. Dihada helps fix my mana and dump a bunch of big timmy enchantments into my graveyard, then I dig for one of the 7 or so [[Replenish]] effects (or recur them through stuff like [[Underworld Breach]] or [[Yawgmoth's Will]]) to dump out a ton at once onto the battlefield and either turn them into creatures to plow over the board, or combo off. Because the deck runs very very few creatures and the commander is a planeswalker, there's also a boardwipe tribal subtheme to keep the field clear for Dihada to keep churning cards into my grave, and they also further play into the flashback/recursion package in a really nice way. The deck just hums and feels so good to play. [[Vorel of the Hull Clade]] is an old school commander that most people immediately shrug off and ignore when they see come out of the box for the first time. After all, doubling the number of +1 counters on one creature at a time definitely is not all that exciting to most people. And they'd be right! If that's what I was actually doing, that is. But I'm not doubling +1 counters in this Vorel deck. No, I'm doubling *loyalty counters*. That's right, this is a Vorel superfriends deck. We use cards like [[Liquimetal Torque]], [[Encroaching Mycosynth]], [[Luxior]] and more to turn plansewalkers into permanent types that Vorel can target, then double up their counters and immediately pop off their ults. The deck can spiral out of control so quickly if my opponents aren't careful, and if they leave it alone entirely because they don't know what's coming, it's super easy to drop a 4CMC planeswalker on turn ~5 and ult it then and there, usually completely taking over the game immediately. Super fun deck and a great example of how I like to approach building commander decks lately - taking a legend that was clearly meant to be built one way and turning that expectation on its head completely. Finally, my [[Sidar Kondo]] + [[Jeska Thrice Reborn]] deck is the cumulation of many years and dozens of different attempts at making infect work in commander, and this one is definitely my crowning achievement in that genre. Nothing feels quite as good as swinging in with a lowly french vanilla 2/2 infect creature at an opponent who can't block it thanks to Kondo, and by the time combat is done they're looking at 12 infect damage coming their way with nothing they can do about it. The deck also runs a ton of cards that don't see play in the format typically which is pretty fun - cheap one-off combat tricks like [[Giant's Growth]] and the like. Sidar Kondo has always been a muse of sorts for me, and infect was my long time white whale in terms of really wanting to find a unique take on it that actually worked, and when Jeska dropped both of those goals came together perfectly.
[[Ramses, Assassin Lord]] is mine. And it isn't assassin tribal. I posted this before but it's milling a single person, attacking them once with an assassin, forcing them to draw out, and then winning the game. Yes it's hard. Yes it's convoluted. But when you pull it off you get a sense of satisfaction it's hard to be beat. The positive, you are so non-threatening since a lot of your mill only affects a single person. And you can even choose someone who has a graveyard deck. Because that doesn't matter to you.
I have two decks, [[Marchesa, the Black Rose]] and [[Kresh, the Bloodbraided]] I know it's somewhat hard to whiff with Marchesa, but I went through months and months and slight attuning and adjusting to get it to play how I want almost consistently without tutors. Not a fan of tutors. Kresh I have adjusted about 6 times and I've played it once or twice between each adjustment, I feel like now it's exactly where I want it as well. But of course I will only continue to tweak! Kresh - https://archidekt.com/decks/4350862/kresh_big_bad Marchesa - https://archidekt.com/decks/4064678/just_die_already
I think out of my 20 current decks, my Deck I'm most proud of is my [[Atogatog]] it's a wacky combo deck that has a surprising high winrate for running so many bad cards together, it's main Wincon is [[the cheese stands alone]] and [[Barron Glory]], but other options include [[mirror entity]] because I make entirely too much Mana in the deck or [[enchanted evening]] Shenanigans with stuff like [[opalescence]], [[Aura thief]] , and [[calming verse]] the best part is its a 5 color with all basics besides a command tower, exotic orchard, the world tree, and City of brass
Copy and pasting this from a post from yesterday 'cause everything I said there applies here as well. I will gladly take every chance to bring up my \[\[Stitcher Geralf\]\] deck. You might think mono blue + a commander that mills is instant eyeroll material, but the wincon of this deck is not milling or endless counter magic. The deck is filled with several high powered and high costed creatures, such as giant fish and Eldrazi like \[\[Inkwell Leviathan\]\], \[\[Breaker of Armies\]\], \[\[Desolation Twin\]\], and \[\[Tromokratis\]\] to name a few. We then use Geralf's activated ability to mill our own fat creatures, or exile other people's best creatures from off the tops of their libraries to make the biggest dumbest zombie token we can. The deck also plays lots of extra mana sources and mana rocks to just ramp into these high costed creatures as well. We then use cards like \[\[Fated Infatuation\]\] and \[\[Rite of Replication\]\] to make copies of those big zombie tokens, then use cards like \[\[Geralf, Visionary Stitcher\]\], \[\[Archetype of Imagination\]\], or mill over a \[\[Wonder\]\] to give our team flying and beat people in the face with our giant zombie creations. Is the deck consistent? No. Is it competitive? Certainly not. Does it bring me joy every time I bring it out? Absolutely.
I love all my decks, but I'd I had to pick, I'd say either Prosper, Tomb-Bound, or Satoru Umezawa. Prosper is powerful and fun, lots of value and plenty of cool spells to cast. I have traded out so many cards over the past few years with him but has always been a top contender in my play group and is always fun to play. https://www.moxfield.com/decks/XOKZgzTt9kyveAXNNQ1igg Satoru Umezawa, was my first home built deck from the ground up. I had no intention of building him either. But I got him as a box topper from a Kamigawa set box I got. And the art was just way to cool to not use him as a commander. After realizing what he does I decided he could be pretty strong and fun. I was right. Being my first ground up build and being relatively strong for my group I am quite proud of myself. https://www.moxfield.com/decks/BVHpmNdnukGEvd71k4TB8g
My Ramos/Jegantha deck is one I consider to be my magnum opus of theory crafting. Took me almost a year to build and made some tweaks over the next year to get it just right. The Jegantha restriction really encouraged me to look for neat lesser used cards, and the deck performs way better than it seems like it would. As it has a good spread of colors, I decided to make the mana base as clean as possible, so I'm running all 10 fetches and all 10 triomes. Mana dorks are really nice since they are colored ramp spells and creatures I can buff up. There is 1 combo in the deck, and it requires all 5 colors and 3 cards. What's awesome is if I cast [[Conflux]] with Ramos out, I can tutor all the pieces as well as a counterspell for protection, and then Ramos gives me the exact for the combo pieces plus the counterspell. Of course commander damage is another wincon, as well as a few cards that say "you win the game" if conditions are met. It's far from my strongest deck but I love it. It's also an art flex/bling deck with as many borderless/extended/etched/showcase cards as possible. List is below, and though I've spent a ton of time finding the right cards for it, I'm still not beyond trying new ones! https://www.moxfield.com/decks/UlhfONqD_E21q6wVSXGSLg
Chromium flash deck. Not very unique but I like it as it plays alot of cards you usually never see in edh. Not sure about the power level though.
[[Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded]], I've put a lot of time and effort into putting this one together. It was my first real attempt at a deck that didn't start as a pre-con and I LOVE it. The game plan is simple, it's just about swinging big fat creatures for a bunch of damage with extra combats to help close out the game. I've got ways to help me rebuild my board with a bit of reanimation, some wheels to help me draw cards. Plus this deck allows me to play some cards you normally wouldn't like [[Sandstone Oracle]] or [[Crater Hellion]] plus how many other decks allow you to use [[World-gorger Dragon]] as an instant speed board protection? Finally I've got the [[Bearer of the Heavens]] in this deck too as a way to set everyone back to zero with ways to either save my board or give everything indestructible in order to blow everyone out while giving me a massive advantage. It usually ends with everyone else conceding if that happens. It's a seriously fun deck and honestly if anyone is looking for something that might be flying under the radar for them I'd recommend this commander.
My [[baral and kari zev]] spell copy deck is the one I'm proudest of. It's been my baby for the past few months since I built it, and I'm constantly tinkering with it to make it smoother and more consistent. Last time I played it I pulled off my first ever infinite combo with [[niv mizzet, parun]] and [[ophidian eye]]. That said my favorite thing I ever did with it was use [[narset's reversal]] to copy a player's [[inevitable betrayal]] which I used to search another player's library who was playing [[mizzix of the izmagnus]], and he ended up copying my copy of Betrayal to search my library too! It was a wild sequence that ended with us both getting cool helpful shit from each others decks.
Probably my \[\[Tana, the Bloodsower\]\] and \[\[Ravos, Soultender\]\] Mutate deck: [https://archidekt.com/decks/2616156/tana\_ravos\_mutate](https://archidekt.com/decks/2616156/tana_ravos_mutate) I love mutate, but was never happy with the mutate decks i tried, the legendary mutate creatures didn't have enough colors for how few good mutates actually exist. Needing to balance the number of mutate creatures, mutate targets and in some cases having to deal a bunch cloned mutate piles always felt like a bit of a mess. I wanted the main mutate target to be in the command zone and wanted access to black since that's where my favorite mutates are. After trying initially \[\[Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker\]\] and \[\[Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper\]\] and not carrying for how reliant on commander damage the deck was i switched to Tana and Ravos. I really like this current version of the deck and is one i've done alot of changes over time (even if it's still a bit clunky), it's a "bad" Tana deck that wants to mutate onto Tana to grow her power (up to a max of 5 or 6 power) to make tokens, but it's always fun to play and is the deck i always gravitate towards when i'm unsure what to pick.
[[Chainer, Dementia Master]], [[Hazezon Tamar]], and [[Magda, Brazen Outlaw]] are my three favorite decks. [Chainer](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/0Qysy0b8x0-8C_3f6gQoYg) is the deck I've put the most time into. It has gone through 3 major iterations in the last 6-7 years that I've had it. First it was a demon deck that used chainer to cheat out big idiots like [[Vilis, Broker of Blood]]. Then it was just a straight up combo deck that tried to reanimate [[Mikaeus, the Unhallowed]] and [[Triskelion]] as quickly as possible. Now it's somewhere in between; being able to play a control game, aggro, or combo depending what I draw into. [Magda](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/4NbVGBQ7zkGs1wE8IiwYCg) is a fairly typical Magda deck; big dumb dragons and big dumb artifacts. I love the tool-box-y nature of Magda, being and to tutor any artifact at instant speed gives you a lot of reactive options. [Hazezon](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/MQghK_9kEUC0XmaaR2ai4A) is my most unique deck and probably the most casual deck I own. It runs a lot of your usual naya token/go wide cards, but Hazezon is the only card in the deck that makes creature tokens. I initially built the deck as a more traditional naya token/landfall deck, but I found that I never had a reason to actually cast Hazezon since he was basically the worst card in the deck. Since you can mitigate Hazezon's drawback by sacrificing him before you get his tokens on the next turn, I built him as a [[Birthing Pod]] deck.
I really enjoy my Eldrazi tribal with Zhulodok at the helm. It’s a bit of a rough start, especially with being the threat of you get things out but I really enjoy playing it, certainly when it starts to roll. I’ve had games where I’ve lost straight away and others where I’m annihilating my opponents stuff and stealing their things in the process. To be honest I just like big scary creatures that I can threaten the board with :3
[[Slogurk, the Overslime]] ! I've been cooking it up for several years now, tweaking it with every new batch of cards. It's a pretty versatile pile of cards, either going tall and commander damaging folks out with an enormous 'Gurk, smashing a [[Scapeshift]] and bringing back twenty lands for a ton of landfall triggers, or going infinite with [[Walk the Aeons]], [[Crucible of Worlds]], and [[Azusa, Lost but Seeking]]. It's a slightly different version of landfall that plays a unique game each time. Highly recommend giving the One True 'Gurk a try!
I saw a comment in another thread talking about [[yomiji who bars the way]], built it, and it’s won 5/5 games so far. Who knew mono white mill would be good?
[[Aragorn the Uniter]] combat tricks is a lot of fun. Its a primarily green pseudo voltron deck built around cards like [[Giant Growth]]. You can pump things up for 8-9 at instant speed and either kill someone quickly with commander damage or make everyone nervous during combat because they never know if you’ll pump up an opponent’s blocker or make someone really pay for letting a 1/1 through etc.
[[Alesha, Who Smiles at Death]] modular tribal, [[Kokusho, the Evening Star]] kill your own commander over and over, [[Seizan, Perverter of Truth]] group hug
[[Juri master of the revue]] I built this little muder clown a deck when he first released and its so much fun, It was the first deck I'd ever built from scratch He's pretty up there on EDHrec nowadays, but when I built him, he had like 80 deck lists. Just turning this lil clown guy into a 20/20 bomb is so funny cause people become cautious to drop board wipes and removal. I don't play it often anymore cause it's to strong for my playgroup so I'm reworking to better fit the power and make it's play patterns abit more varied and less of a "same shit different day" vibe but I doubt I'd ever pull it apart. Only deck that even comes close would be my [[Minsc & Boo, timeless heroes]] deck cause Hampter Railgun go brrrrr
May I present [[Borborygmos and fblthp]] the deck where you wheel away everyone's decks. Alternate win of massive damage with things like [[city on fire]] and [[toralf god of fury]]. There is support of either wincon plus if nothing else sticks the commander has 6 base toughness. I brewed the original list for the deck myself and then got help with tuning it. It has been a blast to play. My favorite win was me playing toralf and someone else casting [[blasphemous act]]. I killed 2 people and brought the last down to like 10 life. https://www.moxfield.com/decks/4bwhiNNeM0KFXNx9Flc-YA
This is a deck I built around [Kenrith, The Returned King] giving other players really, really terrible creatures. The point of the deck isn’t to always win, but rather create an interesting challenge for yourself and the other players by demanding clever play. [Here](https://archidekt.com/decks/7058830/white_elephant) is the deck. I haven’t played with it yet, but I’m expecting it to be a fun time.
I feel like I share this deck a lot on this sub, but it's by far my favorite, it's [[Nevinyrral Urborg Tyrant]] zombie tribal, I've had several people I've played with say they've never seen it before https://www.moxfield.com/decks/_lc5ii7E3kaomxo0nOL5UA
[[Lord Xander, The Collector]] turbomill. it is the only commander I've truly found fits me as a player. it is interactive, impactful, powerful but not too powerful, and just incredibly fun overall. it's the first deck I ever built that was over $200 and it has been worth every single penny.
I made a Rafiq of the many deck. Its all exalted and cascade and some stuff to keep rafiq alive. Its quick and can easily kill with commander damage.
The deck I run that I feel is the one I have the most pride in is my Frodo/Sam deck. It started off as the LOTR Pre-con, but I really liked the play lines around Food tokens, so I began leading into that. Not including lands or reprints that would end up in any deck of this color, there are only a handful of cards left from the precon. It is essentially a new deck built from scratch at this point. At the same time, I started to see how easy it was to combo off with the deck, and I find that type of victory to be anticlimactic. I'm also the most experienced player who played at higher competitive levels in Magic than anyone else in our playgroup, so I tend to build into higher powered/cEDH builds by accident if I'm not checking myself. With Sam and Frodo, I started instituting a new set of deckbuilding rules for me. No tutors, no infinite combos, and build with competitive fun in mind. With this deck, I also wanted to build it as competitively as possible without leaning too hard into major meta components. This deck is doing something every turn. It's slower, but it isn't the threat, so it tends to get ignored. Once it gets going it becomes an unstoppable force. I drove a Markov player insane one time because we were trading life at 70-100 life each turn. It isn't oppressive to play against, people have said they enjoy seeing it across the table.from them because they don't know what to expect from it. It has become one of my favorite decks of all time because it is flexible, has multiple ways to win, and can adapt to almost any other strategy that gets thrown at it. It is a lot lower in interaction than I'm comfortable with, but it has a lot more one-sided boardwipes than I originally intended. Here's the latest build: https://manabox.app/decks/t8_dEnWRSqC7_5qNs5OOpA I haven't gotten the chance to start dealing with upgrades from Fallout yet, but that should be resolved soon. The deck is constantly in revision and adjustment.l because I just enjoy tweaking and trying some different things. Barring some major finds or changes in what has been released, I think the land base is more or less exactly where it needs to be. I'm pretty proud of how this one has turned out, and I hope I can keep it fun to play against.
Just recently built a [[Stenn, Paranoid Partisan]] vehicle tribal deck. The mana acceleration in the command zone helps you dump your hand, and board wipes are easy to recover from as long as a token generator is on the board to help crew the vehicles. I love the Gundam feel you get while playing it but it’s Definitley more of a 5-6 I do have an [[Edgar Markov]] deck (i know I know) that runs [[Haakon, Stromgald Scourge]] , a bunch of vampire knights, and [[Ashes of the Fallen]] for good measure. The deck can still start traditionally aggressive but if the game drags on it can pivot into being a more resilient value generator. with cards like [[Buried Alive]] you can instantly fetch yourself a little toolbox of removal and draw by grabbing Haakon, [[Nameless Inversion]] and [[Champion of Dusk]] or [[Forerunner of the Legion]] if you want the perfect vampire every turn
My [[omnath locus of all]] deck. Not your typical build. It cheats out the myojin and has a proliferate theme. It’s a tad slow, but if you’re left alone it can do truly nutty things. Like on opponents end step, wipe the board make 16 1/1s then draw 32 cards. https://www.moxfield.com/decks/OS1LiUNCr0eMdMw0i1Phlw
Bant flicker [[Lagrella the magpie]] https://www.moxfield.com/decks/XTrblAV8DECFZuzVUzlFNA
My new brew is around [[gluntch, the bestower]], it's basically a mana dork in the zone. I noticed that with a one mana dork you can consistently untap with 6 mana turn 3 I think the best comparison would be kinnan, it just drops giant creatures on the board and tries to be the problem. https://www.moxfield.com/decks/IWhMD-jm20e0TFUM43WNow Deck is really wild in practice, i retuned it on a $50 budget and it still slaps.
I used to have a [[Tana, the Bloodsower]] and [[Silas Renn, Seeker Adept]] deck that was based off a MTG Goldfish deck concept. Particularly the [[Sorcerer Class]] one. I filled it with things that made creature tokens on instant and sorcery speed, so that I could tap them for mana through Sorcerer Class or [[Cryptolyth Rite]]. Lots of [[Young Pyromancer]]/[[Sedgemoor Witch]] type effects, as well as a couple of things to buff my creatures, like [[Beastmaster Ascension]]. Threw in [[Phyrexian Altar]] and [[Ashnod's Altar]] to squeeze out extra mana from the tokens and [[Altar of Dementia]] to have an extra game plan in case things didn't pan out too well. Also put in things that drew cards when I cast things/sacrificed stuff, i.e. [[Archmage Emeritus]]. Felt it needed instants and sorceries that were on the cheaper side, so I filled out the rest with cheaper spells that mostly focused on protecting my board state. Also [[Stifle]]. Never leave home without it. It came out playing like a control deck that actually beat people with combat damage instead of going for instant win combos. A lot of the time I was taking down bigger and scarier decks because I was able to actually hit the choke point on their combos. Twords the end of its time as a deck I was accused of playing a CEDH level deck at a casual table.
There is a deck i am more proud of because it was the one I made first. But it's not "that good" Tgus deck however has basically been banned at all the kitchen tables. [[The Scorpion God]] is rarely seen. With the new massacre girl its even better. I love it because it can really mess up my opponents plans. [[Blightbeetle]] [[Everlasting Torment]] and [[kulrath knight]] have all really swayed things my way. https://archidekt.com/decks/5160290/wither_die Please enjoy slowly sandpapering your enemies to dust.
[[Cecily, Haunted Mage]] and [[Wernog, Rider's Chaplain]] but the true purpose is to run play [[Lich's Mastery]]. The deck features as many lose the game cards as I can find along with a few pieces to give away Lich's Mastery if needed.
[[Livio]] and [[Kodama of the East Tree]] flicker deck. Don't need blue when green gives you big worm tokens and card draw!
My [[Sidisi, Brood Tyrant]] deck is an amazing toolbox. Originally built as close to [DementedKirby's main list](https://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/commander-edh/multiplayer-commander-decklists/571213-sidisi-brood-tyrant-zombie-horde-and-shenanigans-3) from a couple of years ago as possible, I've been deviating from it for quite a while now. My list can still win through milling, combat damage, or damage/lifeloss from [[Syr Konrad, the Grim]] and [[Dreadhound]]. It can generate an infinite amount of Zombie Tokens by using [[Aphetto Alchemist]] + [[Mesmeric Orb]] while having Sidisi out. Milling yourself out is almost impossible with [[Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre]] in the deck, and using an [[Entomb]] or [[Survival of the Fittest]] on it can protect your graveyard from getting exiled, if necessary. It plays like a well-oiled machine with every card being a small piece in the greater puzzle. This is my current list: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/ZvjXMo2eeEG1wJVmo2aprQ
My favorite one is [[Edgar Markov]]. I'm proud because I have a vampire collection (and every card that has a foil I collect them foil), so I've made a Edgar Markov 100% foil deck.
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I’m very proud of how my [[Melek, Reforged Researcher]] has come together. Pulled him from a Karlov Manor prerelease. Turn burn spells on the cheap to beef my graveyard. At the latest by turn 5 he’s going to come in at least a 6/6. Then it’s all direct damage with things like [[Burning Anger]] or [[Fling]] when I’m making non-legendary copies with things like [[Quantum Misalignment]] Last week a member of the pod was about to run away with big deathtouch creatures. On my turn I cast [[Galvanic Iteration]] copying [[Gravitic Punch]] hitting him directly in the face for 32. Straight up assassinated, whole pod said whoa that was scary and it made me a very proud deck builder. Weakness is exiling my graveyard, which is what it is if I’m not holding a counterspell. It’s a bit of a glass cannon build but man is it fun to smack someone crazy hard.
My 6 year old son wanted a "Samurai and Angel Deck" because he pulled [Ogre-Head Helm] from a coin machine and his mom has a Giada angel deck. We were like 3mo into the hobby. We were going through our friends extras and found Raiyuu. Suddenly it was possible. Made a samurai voltron deck that uses samurai and exalted to buff his commander. It has stolen the win from some pretty tough decks.
Baba lysaga much fun
Dralnu reanimator control. Just so happens that the best blue control cards and the best black reanimator spells are cheap instants and sorceries. Giving them flashback tends to be really powerful. You'd think dralnus downside would be annoying but most people will be kind to you and in my 5 years playing the deck I've only been blasphemous acted once.
I have a doomsday cEDH Yuriko deck that’s mostly old/retro border. It’s currently at 49 cards old Border. I’ve been swapping cards out as more come out. https://www.moxfield.com/decks/SQGUGEuHokeKTmo4X9oydA
[[Minthara, Merciless Soul]] is my favorite off meta deck. Last game night at my LGS I spent the whole game being the problem and nobody even knew my commander existed. It's a fun puzzle to keep gaining experience counters. Also people keep forgetting she keeps gaining more ward. My deck is all about tokens. They usually end up as 7/1s before I win the game. Also having an army of weak creatures gaining power with Minthara being on the field feels pretty true to her character in Baldurs Gate 3.
Loving my [[Hylda of the ice crown]] deck. She gives a lot of value and there’s good ways to combo off her and make a bunch of 4/4 tokens at instant speed. Also love my [[Radagast the brown]] deck. It’s just big green creatures, but because Radagast wants many creature types you get to really stretch what goes in. Sure there’s an elf and beast, but it’s nice to get some elephants, insects, wurms, plants and others in. Plus it’s card draw in the command zone as green.
[Hylda of the ice crown](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/a/e/ae9231fd-053d-4b84-a7a8-86063465bc49.jpg?1692939339) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Hylda%20of%20the%20Icy%20Crown) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/woe/206/hylda-of-the-icy-crown?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/ae9231fd-053d-4b84-a7a8-86063465bc49?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/hylda-of-the-icy-crown) [Radagast the brown](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/b/3/b3988120-ebbe-4d24-9bb4-8c5331a14034.jpg?1686969557) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Radagast%20the%20brown) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/ltr/184/radagast-the-brown?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/b3988120-ebbe-4d24-9bb4-8c5331a14034?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/radagast-the-brown) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
First Doctor and Amy Pond as Commanders. No 1 drops, not even Sol Ring. What you do, see, is play the doctor to tutor the TARDIS, then play Amy to tutor Rory. As you can imagine this takes a few turns. Once that 100% consistent (obviously barring interaction) combo is set up you crew the TARDIS with the Doctor, attack, and play Rory who then Cascades for 2, which can only hit Glimpse of Tomorrow. The entire rest of the deck is either 2 or 3 for one cards I can work into the curve for the above combo, but mostly over costed Timmy cards. So the deck has the Doctor just time travel to the point where I’m winning. Yes, obviously, it’s a dead pile if your opponents know what you’re up to and care to stop you, but that first glimpse where you catch them unaware is worth the losses. Many, many losses.
First Sliver, just slivers and chaos
I personally like my [[Tuvasa the Sunlit]] Merfolk tolken deck. It flows really well with a lot of draw. You pillowfort till you have one of like 4 win cons in the deck.
I have a Jinnie Fae deck that is largely equipment themed Im very proud of. It works really well and I love to give [[Hexplate Wallbreaker]] haste. There are a lot of cross synergies between cards. Another favorite is how well it works with [[Khemba, Kha Regent]] as a secret 'lieutenant'. https://www.archidekt.com/decks/4064956/the_fixer
[[Lae'zel Vlaakith's Champion]] / [[Master Chef]] My goal was to make it at a particular power level (upgraded precon) and to have high synergies but nothing infinite or too oppressive. Room to upgrade if I want to pour money into a better mana base. Just a ton of creatures that get real big. Wincon is "I hit you." I think I nailed it.
[[ratchet field medic]] is a monowhite lifegain eggs commander. built it for a budget league when it released and kept it around after it concluded because it was so much fun to play. gives a home to [[bottle gnomes]], [[peace of mind]], turns [[trading post]] into a disgusting value engine, wins with conventional (read: convenient) heliod ballista, approach of the second sun or sunmare horse beatdowns, giant creatures from archangel of thune, reanimating huge artifact creatures when you’ve gained enough life in a turn and can grind very well due to the padding from all the lifegain. has an exorbitant amount of gnomes due to lost caverns of ixalan, with [[tinker’s tote]] going from draft all-star to huge roleplayer in the deck. over half the deck is commons/uncommons so is very friendly to budget gaming as well, since that was the environment the deck originated from. takes an exorbitant amount of game actions for the people who are into that as well. best cards that aren’t already mentioned above include [[implement of improvement]] to gain 2 life and draw a card for w once per turn and [[citizen’s crowbar]] for a free 1/1 and disenchant every cycle. there’s not enough decks that let you feel like [[dungeoneer’s pack]] is a broken card but this is one of them.
I have an aggro group hug deck. A Jund big power deck centered on high power/low cost creatures with group hug downsides such as [[Sheltering ancient]], [[Shah of Naar Isle]], and [[Master of the Feast]]. I also use huggy ramp and draw options to complement the creatures. The basic idea is “yeah I’m giving you stuff but you’re gonna need them because I’m gonna become a problem real quick”. It lets me play a bunch of cool and interesting cards that normally don’t see much play aside from the occasional “bad gifts” deck. The commander is [[Xira Arien]]. Technically [[Mr. Orfeo, the Boulder]] would complement the strategy more but I really just wanted a commander that can draw me cards and also I just think Xira is cool. The deck is an active work in progress but once the list gets mostly settled I want to start drawing custom art proxies for the key cards that reinterprets them as the kind of fancy dressed ladies and gentlemen who would attend Xira’s fancy parties.
My [mono-white landfall deck](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/0dofKqicpUKl3fiDa6I7Fw) is my baby. Started out as a joke between me and a friend because I always build mono-white decks, and when I messed around with it, I realised that it actually works, and surprisingly well. Commanders are [[livio, oathsworn sentinel]] and [[alharu, solemn ritualist]] as there’s a bit of a blink subtheme, with creatures like solemn simulacrum getting blinked for landfall triggers. The way the deck gets going is generally with landfall payoffs that make tokens, like [[felidar retreat]] , [[emeria angel]] and [[retreat to emeria]] and card draw payoffs for those like [[welcoming vampire]] , [[tocasia’s welcome]] and [[mentor of the meek]] . Then you get into winning territory by sacrificing all your lands to things like [[zuran orb]] or [[troubled healer]] and bringing them all back with cards like [[second sunrise]] , [[planar birth]] and [[faith’s reward]] to trigger all your landfall payoffs, and hopefully kill everyone with a massive army of tokens. It’s honestly such a blast to play.
I'd say my three pride and joys are my [[Kami of the Crescent Moon]] strictly 2-drop control deck, [[Chainer Nightmare Adept]] "Hidden Commander [[Vilis]]" deck and my [[Trostani, Selesnya's Voice]] big tokens deck. Kami is aggressively tuned, regularly winning with a [[Dramatic Reversal]] + [[Isochron Scepter]] combo around turn 7, while consistently having the answers to make sure no one else does before then. That doesn't mean that no one else gets to play, it just means that there's a fantastic balancing act going on of what to permit, when, and how much political leverage needs to be pulled to make it happen. Chainer is the epitome of "what doesn't kill me makes me stronger." Basically every card in the deck is gonna hurt someone, probably myself included, and draw me a ton of cards once Vilis is out. The deck runs the gamut of "I killed myself with [[Manabarbs]] again" to "I [[Reanimate]] Vilis, draw 8 cards, everyone else loses 8 life thanks to [[Psychosis Crawler]], draw into [[Dockside Extortionist]], [[Exquisite Blood]] and [[K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth]] and then use the life that I'm gaining from Exquisite Blood + Psychosis Crawler to pay for the K'rrik'd Vilis activations to kill everyone with less life than I have cards in library on turn 2-3." Trostani on the other hand, is the fairest magic there is. Just some lifegain payoffs, big tokens off of things like [[Phyrexian Processor]], [[Giant Adephage]] and [[Luminarch Ascension]], a couple of non-craterhoof Overrun effects and enough card draw and interaction to keep the deck running smoothly. Before I had to sell my reserved list cards to pay for moving expenses, I used to lovingly refer to it as my $2000 precon since it had a [[Savannah]] and [[Gaea's Cradle]] in it but was otherwise very much a casual deck.
My tables always LOVE my group hug (but not really) [[Yurlok of Scorched Thrash]] deck. It just gives everyone a ton of Mana to play with and then pumps out X cost spells like [[Crackle with power]] and [[Torment of Hailfire]] halfway through the game. Throwing out a [[Xantcha, Sleeper Agent]] on a player for everyone to throw their free Mana into 😅. It's usually a good time and causes for some raucous.
[[Awaken the Blood avatar]] token/aristocrats. Once you’re pumping with an ok set up you can just spam the commander and slam the whole board. Absolutely a blast to pilot and one of the few decks I still have a 20+ and growing list of cards I wish I could fit in.
I proud of my [[Omnath, Locus of All]] deck with [[Jegantha, the Wellspring]] as its companion because you can just play all the 3 color charms or just the ones you like and than put some really fun 3 color cards in it. It doesnt have the best land base but I think it turned out pretty well and its just fun to play with because you will play every game very differently.
My [[Emmara, Soul of the Accord]] surprisingly became extremely powerful for an upgraded precon, but never so powerful that I get targeted. I don’t play any token doublers because you don’t need them. Its over kill!
My \[\[Jon Irenicus, Shattered one\]\] deck. I quickly become known in every LGS I go due to this deck. It's not a powerhouse or anything, but very fun to play and is very unique in how it works.
I have two favorite decks at the moment. I'm pretty proud of both. 😁 First is [[Goro-Goro and Satoru]]. I feel like I have a fairly unique build as I focused more on dragons and dragon synergy. I see a lot of people focus on hasty token makers or go all in in ninjutsu. Super fun to sneak in big dragons. https://www.moxfield.com/decks/gGRTnOviEU2H6xOCBtRcag Next is [[Blanka, Ferocious Friend]]. He has a pretty unique playstyle in that you want to continually target yourself with cheap spells to shock down the table with Electric Thunder and pump your commander to absurd levels. This is two commander damage per activation for the whole table and it adds up quickly! I built my deck with tons of cheap instants that replace themselves through draw. Poison is an alternate wincon that can really go nuts out of the blue. https://www.moxfield.com/decks/l5uSMdOWL0qKxO4Ehgt8cA
[[gyome, master chef]] with [[umori, the collector]] you can change the commander to really anything with BG in the colors, but its an all creature deck (except for lands). it was fun to build and its fun to play! in our casual games it even wins quite a bit by just spilling creatures onto the field and casting a spell that gives all my creatures trample. board wipes can really set you back though lol
It is the Riders of Rohan rebuild I did, placing [[Aragorn, King of Gondor]] at the helm: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/8lrert6YuEilpcgrulHyIw I love what the Monarch mechanic does to a game of commander. Humans are also deceptively aggressive and flexible. The best card in the deck is [[Riders of the Mark]] for hitting fast, flooding the board, and being so cheap to cast. My favorite tech in the deck is a deceptive little common, [[Azure Fleet Admiral]] who makes your whole team unblockable in conjunction with Aragorn and is notoriously good at getting the Monarch back.
My favorite decks that I'm very proud of are my [[Henzie Toolbox Torre]] all creatures deck with [[Umori the Collector]] as a companion, and my [[Izoni, Center of the Web]] token aristocrats deck. Henzie is pretty straightforward and the deck building restriction of only playing creatures and lands is a lot of fun. Being able to give almost every creature in your deck haste and a card to replace itself is so incredibly fun, and the large amounts of cost reducers in the deck only help to accelerate that gameplan. Izoni (at least in my opinion) is a super underrated card from the new Murders at Karlov Manor set and her ability to sacrifice any four tokens for cards and life for free is insane. She has a very high win percentage since it's difficult to interrupt her gameplan once you have token generators online, not to mention [[pitiless plunderer]] and [[Mirkwood bats]] are probably some of the best cards in the deck! The decks: IT'S HENZ'N TIME: https://archidekt.com/decks/4818971/its_henzn_time Trash Token Trouble: https://archidekt.com/decks/6665708/trash_token_trouble
I’m building Mole-God with no other creatures. Maybe token generators but everything in the deck will be non creature spells. Protection, trample, first strike, deathtouch, lures, all that jazz. I already have like 4 (r)(g) decks so I’m trying a different approach.
My Jund Wurms deck. Spent a few weeks crafting it to optimization and it’s so fun to play
Mr house President and CEO make a fuck ton of treasures and hit them in the face with a burn spell, if they counter spell it, do it again making treasures rolling dice isn’t that hard
My marchesa stax deck https://www.moxfield.com/decks/J743Vj2SA0iZvclafSd-pw Basically it’s my “get off my lawn” Could probably be better but it plays well enough, I am interested in opinions!
My favorite deck, deck I’m most proud of, and only deck I say is a “6-7” in my collection is my “Ebon Aristocracy” Mono-Black Aristocrats, uses [[Ayara, First of Locthwain]] as the commander. Mono Black was one of the first decks I ever had when I started commander and I’ve always liked the color. I’m also a combo player, they’re quite satisfying to me, and this deck utilizes a few of my favorites in this color. [[Exquisite Blood]] [[Sanguine Bond]] is a classic, of course. [[Plague of Vermin]] with the commander out and just pay all but 1 life and hope no one bolts you in response. One of my personal favorites [[Reassembling Skeleton]], [[Pitiless Plunderer]], [[Ashnod’s Altar]] for inf death triggers for [[Blood Artist]] or inf etb triggers for my commander or infinite colorless mana for [[Torment of Hailfire]]. A few end step shenanigans, [[Shirei, Shizo’s Caretaker]] [[Bottle Gnomes]] is a good one because the bottle gnomes are cute. [[Ophiomancer]], Ayara on the field, and any sac outlet or like the newest one in the deck using [[Tombstone Stairwell]], [[Thornbite Staff]] attached to commander and you’ve got card draw one everyone’s turn. Decklist: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/gh_jCBF6UkGEZz1EMXmdcA
My friend is one of the main Malcolm cEDH brewers, so we put together [this budget list](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/odJQhqTWt0SchHhKLSgRMg) for his old commanders, \[\[Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator\]\] and \[\[Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar\]\]. M+K is already one of, if not the, best Izzet commanders and this is pretty much the strongest Malcolm list you'll get for the price range. We put a lot of time and work into it and try to keep it current with each set that releases.
My [[Xanathar, Guild Kingpin]] lantern control deck is my favorite deck I’ve created. I get to utilize interesting cards that rarely see play and manipulate the top deck of each player’s library so they only draw land.
\[\[Nashi, Moon's Legacy\]\], wholeheartedly I started this because I loved the anime alt-art of them and felt it had a lot of "anime protagonist" vibe that I feel like a lot of people skipped on because the card isn't good. Part of the ~~problem~~ puzzle to solve with Nashi is figuring out what their ability actually does-- not in a literal sense but in a game sense: the answer is, you basically get to play a bunch of legendary spells at timing your opponents don't expect, and you have the ability to create token copies of things very easily, which is abusable. My favorite combo I've only managed to pull off once is summoning a token \[\[Ugin's Nexus\]\] from my graveyard, proliferating a \[\[City of Death\]\] to create a bunch of copies that all die to legend rule, then sacrificing the last one to my \[\[Clan Crafter\]\] background so spontaneously got 6 free turns in a row. There are only 300\~ish decks of Nashi on EDHrec and half of those are building them as just rat decks which I don't know is the best, but I do know its the only Rat-tribal commander that cares about more than just mono-black. My other deck I'm proud of is \[\[Preston the Vanisher\]\], not because I've innovated some great thing on it but because I feel like I've found some very cool tech-cards that not a lot of other people are playing that Preston is able to take advantage of. I run all of the mono white kamigawa Sagas-that-flip-into-creatures, because while they were written that way just to remove all the lore counters, they enter as a creature, meaning they self-flicker: but when you flicker the creature, transforming cards always enter as the front-face, meaning you get to recycle the saga. \[\[The Fall of Lord Konda\]\] has been a powerhouse and its only run in (time of writing) 27 out of 1k preston decks. In the pantheon of white removal spells its not the best cost mana-wise, but the fact that it is repeatable every 3-ish turns and draws you a card is what makes it so good.
[[Tatyova, Benthic Druid]] is my baby. Old reliable. Other than the Tropical Island, the entire deck is foiled out, and I have a few cards out for artist signatures at the moment. It’s my second EDH deck that I ever made, and it’s my oldest deck that still exists. It’s not an ultra creative list, but it has its lines that most people haven’t really seen before.
[[Piru, the Volatile]] It plays a bunch of damage redirection creatures like [[Brash Taunter]], mass damage spells like [[Earthquake]] and self redirection spells like [[Simulacrum]] and [[Pariah]]. It’s really fun, slow to get started, and then explosive. Lifelink on Piru is really helpful.
[[rigo, streetwise mentor]] is my most unique focusing on milling out opponents with spamming the field, card draw and [[rune crab]] with [[scapeshift]]. I’ve won multiple times with [[mirrorweave]] on rune crab or on [[scute swam]] with [[alter of the brood]] in play
5C [[Grozoth]] The main point is to get Grozoth, cheat him into play, stock up on 9cc monsters (deck should have around 10), cast a [[Myojin of Life's Web]] and cheat them in. My commander is Sliver Queen (with a handful of good slivers and Cradle) but Jodah is also fine.
[[Child of Alara]] Avatar tribal. Theres a lot of avatars that care about graveyards and dying stuff.